Example sentences of "so [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Secte Rouge blocked Mortimer 's path , however , and no one else was in position to attack Carrefour , so Ace slammed a magazine into her Browning and fired a couple of shots . |
| 2 | So strong had sympathy with the Communists grown among the active membership that the NAC was instructed , against its wishes , " to approach the Communist International with a view to ascertaining in what way the ILP may assist in the work of the International " . |
| 3 | Hinchley and Pickering kept the wingers quiet , so Posh had to attack up the middle . |
| 4 | Anne was surprised at how quickly all that seemed so strange became normal . |
| 5 | In such societies labour is so little thought of as a special separate type of activity that there is no word which in any way corresponds to what we with our language , moulded by the history of capitalism , mean by labour . |
| 6 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 7 | She was puzzled for some moments as to the source of the smell , so little did she expect the brothers would be so dirty . |
| 8 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 9 | So that did n't last long . |
| 10 | He had some memory of having promised God to give up drinking but God had n't turned the clock back so that did n't count any more . |
| 11 | So that did n't go down too well with our lot but it 's either that or it blow up all the time . |
| 12 | So that did n't mean |
| 13 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 14 | Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC . |
| 15 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 17 | So old fashioned Chinese art dealers would deal across the board , with a top layer of ‘ important ’ pieces and less costly stock to pay the rent . |
| 18 | Art is , and always was , the only point — a notion so old fashioned in today 's hyperventilated art world that it just might , if we are lucky , be due for a comeback . |
| 19 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 20 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 21 | It was sort of , so few came through it was very much sort of under the counter . |
| 22 | England had alerted her ; so many people she had met there affected kindness but so few had warmth . |
| 23 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 24 | So few informed Blackwomen artists are employed in institutions , that we are co-erced into helping out , at the very last minute , to save Blackwomen artists , no , let me correct that , Black students across the board , that it was obvious that the wheel could not be eternally re-invented . |
| 25 | The ugly tone of the game might have been so different had referee Kelvin Morton taken a firm hand at the start . |
| 26 | It might have been oh so different had Northern Ireland capitalised on that early lead but instead they treated it like a hot potato and the two points were not safe until the Finish referee heralded it the Finish of the game . |
| 27 | ‘ A ’ used tae , but a' never expected tae come here in the first place so a' gave up wonderin' what comes next . ’ |
| 28 | So popular did they become , that their decoration , usually with scraps , became one of the amateur arts to loved by Victorian ladies . |
| 29 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 30 | We find that in the first month or so after the eruption , the large amount of SO 2 injected into the tropical atmosphere catalyses mid-stratospheric ozone production . |