Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] so [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 This had so infuriated Moustaine that he had decided to punish them , which meant the rest of us as well .
2 Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ?
3 In such a context no wonder that those preoccupied with the mentally ill feel so frustrated with the politics of fiscal restraint in all the industrial democracies .
4 The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years .
5 The centre of the turmoil was a string of ten barges so laden with grain that only inches of freeboard remained .
6 Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions .
7 Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute .
8 The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice .
9 Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it .
10 The bitter attacks on Germany by the fledgling but rapidly developing Russian press , after the Berlin settlement of 1878 had so disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans , helped to push Bismarck towards the alliance with the Habsburg empire which took shape in 1879 .
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