Example sentences of "they were so [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were so named because of their comfortable leather seats on the lower deck . |
| 2 | The first may be thought of as the historical , the second the statistical method , and they were so named by Clerk Maxwell . |
| 3 | Anyway , it was a good job we did because these erm these grouse and these chickens , I mean , they were so blended in with the the , the roadside you could hardly see them , and then they moved . |
| 4 | They were so fed up with people asking to use the phone to report an accident that they decided to do something about it . |
| 5 | Epstein as he listened leant towards Brahe , and Brahe as he spoke leant towards Epstein , and they were so involved with each other , and in any case the engine noise was so continuous and enveloping , like the air , that no-one , behind them , could have heard anything ! |
| 6 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 7 | America could not believe that their elite fighting forces could be quashed by a bunch of peasants , and that was why they were so determined to win . |
| 8 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 9 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 10 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 11 | They were so fascinated by sex that they elevated its study from the status of a hobby to that of a science . |
| 12 | Repeatedly the theme of making the work place like a family was touched upon , and while higher management were not referred to as ‘ parents ’ it was clear that in feeling they were so regarded . |
| 13 | I remember I used to think they were so grown up . |
| 14 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 15 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 16 | They were so designed as to be easily folded up , enabling the car to be thoroughly cleaned . |
| 17 | The insecurities remain because they were so entrenched at a very important developmental time when as children they were dependent and let down . |
| 18 | And they were so carried away , they forgot to put on the handbrake . |
| 19 | They were so humiliated to have succeeded merely in killing unarmed children at the port — together with their incapacitated , grieving fathers — and in losing many , many of their tribe , that they set our boats on fire in a final gesture of spite . |
| 20 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 21 | They were so removed from guilt or caring their denials were the merest bemused shrug . |