Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 2 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 3 | Fighting Margaret Lacey seemed so futile now . |
| 4 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
| 5 | They seemed so easy together . |
| 6 | She seemed so authoritative already , so decided , a world away from the desperately anxious girl he had taken to pay her first calls that chill afternoon of February . |
| 7 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 8 | If there had been a fire the tragedy was doubly sickening ; frequently there was not a fire and it all seemed so unreal rather like some still life tableau . |
| 9 | Carrie lingered , partly because she felt so sorry suddenly , and partly because she felt guilty . |
| 10 | Indeed , why it was that she felt so breathless now . |
| 11 | But I must admit I really had a go at one nonce and felt so guilty afterwards , after she explained to me what had happened . |
| 12 | I thought : no wonder I felt so terrible yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |
| 14 | Puzzled to find her thoughts taking such a melancholy turn when she felt so wonderful inside , Sarella made her way into the bathroom and ran a shower . |
| 15 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 16 | It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy . |
| 17 | In the 1950s and the 1960s many US firms grew so large so fast that Europeans began to speak of the ‘ American takeover ’ of their economies . |
| 18 | ‘ You looked so awful earlier , so gaunt and haunted . |
| 19 | I did n't think I looked so dreadful before , and I certainly did n't think it was any business of theirs how I looked . |
| 20 | He took so long though did n't he ? |
| 21 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |