Example sentences of "it was so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wisharts resumed their reading , Mrs Wishart kept glancing at the old lady — she could n't help admiring her dress , it was so Victorian and really out of place in 1945 . |
| 2 | It was so loud and so deep it was n't really sound at all , just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it . |
| 3 | Only one explanation fitted all the facts , and it was so far-fetched that more than once she dismissed it . |
| 4 | Though it was so strange and so cryptic , Boy understood this call , because he began to understand now that there are different kinds of wanting someone . |
| 5 | I knew it was so necessary and just applied myself to doing everything they told me . ’ |
| 6 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 7 | It was so sudden that even her doctors were taken by surprise , and to her husband the news came as a profound shock . |
| 8 | It was so sudden and so fierce that she could not deny it . |
| 9 | The girl 's voice in her ear startled her ; it was so clear and so close . |
| 10 | Even strong Anglophiles could weary of British advice — it was so pervasive and often patronizing . |