Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe I was so shallow back then . |
| 2 | I wanted to see something of those countries which were so much part of what Europe has been and will become , and which were yet so unknown . |
| 3 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 4 | But at the same time , she was nettled that her daughter had n't told her she was going out , and the sexual jealousy , which was so much part of their relationship , was irritated by the news . |
| 5 | Mordecai himself was so much part of the shadows that at first when you stepped into the shop you did not see him . |
| 6 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 7 | Dr Neil , with many a joke , helped them , made change , and once went out to return with lemonade and glasses for all the ladies who were so busy manning the stalls , Mr Sands helping him — the rector being a vague benevolent figure who came in and blinked at them all , said , ‘ I am sure , ladies , that you will all gain treasure in heaven for your noble work here today , ’ and went out again . |
| 8 | But you were so much part of our youth . ’ |
| 9 | You did n't have time to do much talking you were so busy sewing . |
| 10 | She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing . |
| 11 | She was so busy thinking about the people upstairs that she did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway . |
| 12 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 13 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 14 | Why do you think there were so many butcher 's shops ? |
| 15 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |
| 16 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 17 | There were so many evening meetings to attend … |
| 18 | By the end of the Eighties there were so many library books in the shops and on market stalls ( a mediaeval phenomenon that still survives in market towns in Devon and elsewhere ) that it was clear to anyone that a new situation had arisen . |
| 19 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 20 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 21 | ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us . |
| 22 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 23 | I asked Fleischmann why there was so much concern . |
| 24 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 25 | When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia . |
| 26 | There were moments of course , when Jim and I felt desperately tired and even resentful because there was so much work involved . |
| 27 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 28 | There was so much love and companionship and understanding between these three people that she was hurt by it . |
| 29 | There was so much laughter , so much excitement , so much love . |
| 30 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |