Example sentences of "i [vb past] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 2 | I became so worried that we went to our G.P. and after several visits he suggested an allergy to cows milk : so we tried a milk free diet ( its harder than you think once you start looking at contents labels ) . |
| 3 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 4 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 5 | But in the end I became so frightened of her I used to start shaking when she came into the room . |
| 6 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 7 | I do n't know how I became so enthusiastic ! |
| 8 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 9 | BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) . |
| 10 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 11 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 12 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 13 | Odd how I pinned so much on getting her into bed , and when I did , after we did … |
| 14 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I made so many mistakes about you . |
| 16 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 17 | At the age of sixteen , cos there was hardly anybody else at the place where I lived so it went down to sixteen year olds . |
| 18 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 19 | ‘ Not that it was much use , I 'm afraid ; I met so many people the faces were just a blur . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 21 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 22 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 23 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 24 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 25 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 26 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 27 | ‘ I got so angry . |
| 28 | ‘ I got so used to winning them . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I got so frustrated . |
| 30 | It was because I got so frustrated . |