Example sentences of "she [was/were] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , if she were so ill it would look funny taking the children — and I 'm not leaving them with her ! ’ |
| 2 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 3 | She was so extraordinarily pleasant it knocked me quite off my balance . |
| 4 | She was so sure that time would change Lucy 's fear of loving her that every unanswered poem spurred her on to something finer . |
| 5 | Jay cursed that she was so pleased with the crumbs of comfort : coffee , a drink , a phonecall . |
| 6 | Having met her just that once , she was so sparky and ritzy . |
| 7 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 8 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 9 | She got a better deal , to be fair , out of the Common Market , because she was so difficult . |
| 10 | She was so horribly sensible that it could drive you , as Maggie knew it was now driving Phoebe , into complete tantrums and screaming , because Rachel would not share that part of the argument . |
| 11 | She was so keen to get a letter to her daughter off tonight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known Nora since she was so high , ’ said Updike . |
| 13 | Everyone seemed to like Fergie ; she was so natural , so unspoilt , and she brought a breath of fresh air wafting through the corridors of Court . |
| 14 | ‘ She was so young , ’ his mother had whispered over and over again , until he wanted to shout at her to stop , ‘ so young , and all her life before her . ’ |
| 15 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 16 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 17 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 18 | He found Catherine Crane competently and tactfully assisting with operations , and as he came to stand beside her realized she was so cold that she was almost shuddering . |
| 19 | She had tremendous will-power , and the locals reckoned she would outlive everyone just to spite them , yet she was so senile she was practically imb -senile ! |
| 20 | She would probably be quite prepared to believe someone else was responsible as she was so besotted with him . |
| 21 | She was so short of breath that it was an effort to speak . |
| 22 | She was so busy thinking about the people upstairs that she did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway . |
| 23 | She was so proud of this father . |
| 24 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 25 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 26 | She was so bewildered herself , she felt fainter than ever . |
| 27 | She was so happy , she could n't help giving grateful thanks out loud for such a quick answer to her prayer . |
| 28 | Clarissa could think of nothing constructive to say except that she was so sorry . |
| 29 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 30 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |