Example sentences of "[Wh pn] was so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |
| 2 | Leni had taken pity — more than pity — on the young woman who was so grateful for a friendly German voice and so bemused by the political carnival she had unleashed . |
| 3 | ‘ The heaviest pig ever recorded was a Poland-China hog named ‘ Big Bill ’ , who was so obese that his belly dragged along the ground . |
| 4 | The Head Girl who was so anxious to shepherd Mary back to heterosexuality was Doris Birch . |
| 5 | Before dinner , John , who was so laid-back he made the trees seem neurotic , offered us a yoga lesson . |
| 6 | The Emperor had no particular difficulty putting a stop to this , though the Company was able to re-establish its position by blockading shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Emperor forgave the Company in much the same way as he would have forgiven any of his nobles who tried to rebel but who was so powerful that it was neither convenient nor practicable to destroy him . |
| 7 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 8 | Funakoshi put on a display of the art for the emperor of Japan , who was so impressed that he asked him to stay in Japan and teach . |
| 9 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 10 | An affair with this lovely woman who was so rich and inviting , and Viktor 's brief to him , track down the cross . |
| 11 | What do we say of our driver , who was so preoccupied with her molars , that she can recall nothing of her trip ? |
| 12 | Oh , poor Aunt Margaret , who was so gentle , and yet slept ( probably ) in the same bed as he , for they were married . |
| 13 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 14 | I am thinking particularly of one of the Bushmen you knew who was so good at imitating a professor . |
| 15 | Behind the little girl who was so good at looking after others was another little girl longing to be looked after herself . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've seen Mr Brownlow , the kind man who was so good to me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What I never could understand , ’ said Gerald , ‘ was why Steen , who was so good with money , made such a cock-up of that final will . |
| 18 | Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ? |
| 19 | One pupil told her grandmother , who was so shocked she had to be calmed down by her son and daughter-in-law . |
| 20 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 21 | ‘ Sit down , Willie , ’ he said to Noolan who was so deep in thought he 'd almost walked past the table . |
| 22 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 23 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ironically Roche , who was so effective at creating business , appeared unable to manage it , and almost drove the firm to bankruptcy when he became its president . |
| 26 | I , who was so prudent , was recklessly throwing all my cards into the game . |
| 27 | Excellent people , of course , particularly that good Mr Ephraim Cook who was so clever about taking care of the business so that John-William could take his rest . |
| 28 | They welcomed the ( extrovert young Australian who was so genuine in her concern for their children and spoke their language with far more than her lips . |
| 29 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 30 | Shelley decided to be honest with this girl , who was so close to Miguel Rafaelo . |