Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine had looked so achingly beautiful when Mathilde had talked about it . |
| 2 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 3 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 4 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 5 | 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 . |