Example sentences of "so [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
| 2 | Then we realised that she 'd had diarrhoea so badly it was actually oozing out of her collar ! |
| 3 | By the time the eighth wicket went down the lead was already 264 , so perhaps it was unkind of Baptiste and Holding to hammer 150 in 113 minutes for West Indies ' ninth wicket record against England . |
| 4 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 5 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 6 | She was n't fat , but then neither was Louise , so perhaps it was all right . |
| 7 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 8 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 9 | Nobody came in so perhaps it was a mistake . |
| 10 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 11 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 12 | There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer . |
| 13 | She hurt so much it was physical pain , like a knife twisting backwards and forwards . |
| 14 | For those who had criticized the flawed economics of the nuclear protagonists ' case for so long it was the beginning of their justification . |
| 15 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 16 | It stank like a midden and the straw underfoot had lain so long it was a black , oozy mess . |
| 17 | so so it was nearly a year before we actually got away |
| 18 | So naturally it was Tess who should represent her family at the d'Urberville home . |
| 19 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 20 | So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday . |
| 21 | Given a low-cost product which can do so much so quickly it was a inevitable that its use would begin to spread from the professional graphics market — for which it was predominantly designed — to the office market . |
| 22 | and it 's much lower down , and this thing , it 's like a gap , it 's like this big around the bottom of the sink , so like it was n't even touching the sink , the , the pedestal bit under bits underneath , it 's like , it had a sort of similar sort of shape , so it should fit , but it was like , a massive gap underneath , like no |
| 23 | Rodriguez spoke softly , his voice so low it was almost a whisper . |
| 24 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 25 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 26 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 27 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 28 | They were n't used to doing this kind of thing — they were n't used to rock and roll or putting something up and taking it down every day , so really it was a white elephant from the beginning . |
| 29 | So now it was ill . |
| 30 | So now it was deja vu . |