Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the film 's director , Alfred Hitchcock , threw a party at his house , Clift became so drunk that his co-star Karl Malden carried him out in his arms . |
| 2 | It was here that Madge Segger and Phyllis Ratcliffe became so enthusiastic about Medau . |
| 3 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
| 4 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 5 | But Bernard fainted so she took him into casualty . |
| 6 | And New Zealand admit Chris Pringle became so angry at Pakistan 's tricks that he produced life-time best Test figures of 11 for 152 after scuffing the ball . |
| 7 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 8 | Cotton smelled so nice . |
| 9 | This is perhaps the most important reason why Marx and Engels concentrated so much on Morgan 's work , and by and large accepted the main lines of his account of the early history of mankind . |
| 10 | Later , when their work had become completely Cubist , Picasso and Braque devised a more elaborate and sophisticated method of dealing with solid forms but the means which they used to differentiate between the parts of planes or an object or figure and the devices they used to reconcile it to the picture plane were , it will be seen , not unlike those which Picasso used so boldly here . |
| 11 | I think a lot of commentators were surprised when Arsenal paid so much money for Ian but his phenomenal strike-rate for them is probably why transfer prices have gone through the roof . |
| 12 | Er , but , you know , Freud discovered so much about consciousness and unconsciousness that erm , you ignore it , strikes me as just silly . |
| 13 | On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis . |
| 14 | It is not surprising to learn that Sutherland felt so in sympathy with Picasso 's Guernica and later regretted that , in 1945 , he had not observed for himself the concentration camps . |
| 15 | the old Anti-Slavery Society committee [ was not prompted ] to make a vigorous opposition to the grant of Twenty Millions and one parliamentary leader T. F. Buxton felt so much doubt upon the propriety of turning the attention of the country prominently to it that there was on this subject a want of cordial cooperation with those who wished to make use of it to its full extent . |
| 16 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 17 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 18 | She had come with her little boy of four to stay for a fortnight because the van Goghs felt so sorry for her . |
| 19 | Travis thought so too . |
| 20 | Shipton thought so too : |
| 21 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 22 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 23 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 24 | ‘ Arsenal fell so far behind at the start of last season that they could n't catch us , even though they went 17 matches unbeaten towards the end . |
| 25 | Apparently Richard thought so , too , for after a moment he led her away to the bar . |
| 26 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Soft music filled Helen 's rooms , and she and Edward looked so happy that Sophie rejoiced for them . |
| 28 | ‘ Ruthven did so himself . |
| 29 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 30 | No wonder his interest in swopping pleasantries with aging Americans had sunk to zero ; no wonder the prospect of the lubricious Lucy Downes proved so irresistible . |