Example sentences of "was so [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer . |
| 2 | It was so close that I felt I could reach out and touch her . |
| 3 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 4 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 5 | ‘ She did , and Russell was so unhappy that he did not contest it . ’ |
| 6 | Desmond thinks that he 's the dad of thing cos he was so drunk that he slept with her but his mum |
| 7 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 8 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 9 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 10 | Because she was so certain that she wanted someone older and more experienced to look after her baby than a young girl straight out of college , Celia had not bothered to mention Edna 's letter to Brian . |
| 11 | The building was so perfect that it became fantastic , and we imagined a huge finger coming from the sky and pressing on the dome . |
| 12 | The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket . |
| 13 | Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) put it stronger when they said NAEP was so limited that it has ‘ virtually no capacity to provide the federal government , the lay public , or most educational policymakers with results that are directly useful for decision making ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ He was so famous when I met him , and I was very intimidated . |
| 15 | I thanked my lucky stars for Twelve French Poets , the A-level syllabus , and our rectangular French teacher , who was so thorough that I found I could discuss symbolism and synaesthesia without batting an eyelid . |
| 16 | In my mind it was so real that I spent several hours on this description . |
| 17 | ‘ Even though I was so distant when we met ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 19 | Her throat was so dry that it hurt . |
| 20 | Left alone she was so docile that she ignored Frankie completely , but in the company of the ferocious Rosie she , too , became a dangerous animal . |
| 21 | But it , it was so varied that you went through the , the cities and the highland scenes where they went through the highlands and in the country and then you ended up with coming on to a crossroads in a modern , a futuristic city , where if you look down you , the pavements were elevated and you walked down to where all the models of General Motors were displayed as if they were crossing roads . |
| 22 | When she died , a couple of years later , he was so heartbroken that he made sure he would share her final resting place at the Downs Crematorium in Bear Road when he , too , was laid to rest . |
| 23 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 24 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 25 | The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again ! |
| 26 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
| 27 | She could n't bear him to think she was so selfish that she did n't care what harm she caused . |
| 28 | The darkness was so total that she wondered if they would even be able to proceed without the aid of a torch . |
| 29 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 30 | Gabriel put his flat trumpet to his lips and pretended to blow — and , underneath the cart , a shawm blew a nasal fanfare : the timing was so good that it startled even Gabriel . |