Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] so [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply . |
| 2 | I was so overcome that I approached Shell and offered to buy it . ’ |
| 3 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 4 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 5 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 6 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 7 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 8 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 9 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 10 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 11 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 12 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 13 | He was so inspired that he became an artist too . |
| 14 | He was so enraged that he blasted his love rival to death in front of the girl ’ . |