Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 2 | Plans for five nuclear plants in Washington State had proved so financially disastrous that local councils had been landed with debts running into millions of dollars . |
| 3 | I thought she was quieter than I remembered , but perhaps that was because Aunt Kit had become so much more talkative . |
| 4 | I could n't believe it , especially when Graham Gooch had played so well over the last year . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Brooks wondered who this morning 's visitor was , and where Mrs d'Urberville had gone so early . |
| 6 | RCN said the SAM pilot had to stop so suddenly that luggage came flying out of overhead compartments . |
| 7 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 9 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 10 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 11 | This new consumer culture sold televisions , washing machines , fridges ; the new popular music — whose pulling power Elvis Presley had demonstrated so devastatingly — sold sex . |