Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Town Council were so stupid there , we they 're , the Magistrate threw it out , said , no , you ca n't have a licence , because it 'd be too big a public nuisance , they decided to appeal . |
| 2 | You could n't begin to compare a father like hers , who was n't there and whose face and voice were so vague now in your memory that you' d almost forgotten them , with a father like Simon 's who had such a powerful physical presence . |
| 3 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 4 | On that narrow bed we were so close together . |
| 5 | Perhaps there had been a muddle because her birthday and her wedding date were so close together . |
| 6 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 7 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |
| 8 | But if this were so then most other accounts of authority would come to grief . |
| 9 | You do n't want anyone prying into your private domain and observing quite why there were so many conveniently empty beer crates for us to use . |
| 10 | Her talks were so simple even little children could listen and understand . |
| 11 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 12 | They were so verminous that early guidebooks such as Murray 's advised that they should be sunk as soon as they were hired to get rid of rats , mice and scorpions . |
| 13 | We were so happy here , Nick and I. I thought — I hoped that was all I 'd remember . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We were so happy here , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ He was very cut up about Stephen dying , They were so happy together . |
| 16 | We were so happy together . ’ |
| 17 | But the curious pair who for a time were so well-known simply for being rich vanished from the public eye — towards a tax haven in Jersey . |
| 18 | It was amazing that him and Shutt were so sucessful together . |
| 19 | ‘ You were so sweet once . |
| 20 | I mean they were pretty awful were n't they in any sort of , musical sense , but they were so outrageous outrageously bad in some respects as well . |
| 21 | Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim so that he could not see ’ ( 27.1 ) . |
| 22 | The Selby Canal was iced and the Winter Warmers match was switched to the River Aire swhere conditions were so bad only organiser Billy Harrison turned out ! |
| 23 | ‘ And because you were so brave today , Leonora , I bought you a present in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 24 | Because we were so comfortable together , in a way it was pleasant to be alone again . |
| 25 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 26 | ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’ |
| 27 | He was so close now she could barely breathe , could feel his warm breath on her skin . |
| 28 | He was so close now I could count his teeth . |
| 29 | That , Maggie knew , was why Rachel was so unhappy now . |
| 30 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |