Example sentences of "was so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynes 's struggle to break free from the classical economics with which he was so profoundly imbued , and his recurrent comparisons with what he regarded as the most powerful , though flawed , alternative approach to macroeconomic matters , were almost totally ignored . |
| 2 | The pain that tugged at the muscles of his stomach and chest was so intimately hurtful that he knew it was nothing but useless unspent emotion . |
| 3 | It was because everyone was so desperately grateful to get off the shifting , jerking , swaying ladders the Navy called gangways . |
| 4 | It must have been terrible out there in the cold when she was so desperately ill — I dare n't think about it . |
| 5 | The only reason it hurt so much was that she was so desperately in love with him . |
| 6 | His father used to say that he was so desperately anxious to amount to something that he chose a subject about which critical people knew nothing and cared less . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And what made you think that poor little Kirsty was so desperately in need of a day-trip to London ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was so desperately afraid that you would turn out to be the sort of person who cares only about money and possessions . ’ |
| 9 | Her voice sounded drugged and heavy from the feelings she was so desperately trying to bring under control . |
| 10 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 11 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 12 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 13 | Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand . |
| 14 | And I was so completely in their power . |
| 15 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 16 | Alone with the pages of her book , Louisa felt depleted by the knowledge that the world for which she wrote was so completely estranged from the values she cherished . |
| 17 | The part of him that was so completely different from her own . |
| 18 | It would be a shame if she did n't take one last look at her fictional hero — the man it was safe to love because he was so completely out of her world … |
| 19 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 20 | Willie did n't understand what was so particularly special about that . |
| 21 | Because he was so vastly entertaining , you took those times with the others . ’ |
| 22 | Many writers inspire no personal curiosity , but in her case one felt there must be a profound and perhaps rather horrible experience behind her work , and her single-minded devotion to one theme , a theme that was so poignantly interesting to us . |
| 23 | Another boy went down , was so disgustingly |
| 24 | I never thought to ask but one was er was seventy nine percent so I do n't , he was So whenever you 're ready then . |
| 25 | He was so unaware of the joke and it was so professionally done that the result was absolutely incredible . |
| 26 | Did he think he was so wonderfully interesting that — |
| 27 | If it was so stunniggly desolate here , how must it be farther up , where the cool winds of the North Sea and the warm winds from the Atlantic met , sometimes to roar like a tornado down the Pennine Way ? |
| 28 | Such withering disapproval had curled those drooping lips after her initial consternation , and Nahum was so inwardly uncomfortable he forgot to consider Sarah 's feelings . |
| 29 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 30 | Miriam Durkin was so markedly different from her husband . |