Example sentences of "[pron] was so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so nervous out there . |
| 2 | I was so anxious not to be late for my appointment that I got to Passy two hours early . |
| 3 | I was so hungry now I could hardly think . |
| 4 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 5 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 6 | Oh I , I was so frightened yesterday when he came round . |
| 7 | I also admired the BBC 's old " Tonight " programme , fronted by Cliff Michelmore , which was so much ahead of its time in news-magazine terms , by its imaginative use of film and the quality of its scripts . |
| 8 | She was so animated again , it was a joy to Constanza . |
| 9 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 10 | She was so hungry so tired and hot . |
| 11 | She was so slim before : where does she lose the weight from , I wonder ! ’ |
| 12 | She was so tense now that her muscles were beginning to quiver . |
| 13 | She was so pretty then , he says , and full of hope and plans . |
| 14 | She was so cold now . |
| 15 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 16 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 17 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 18 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 19 | But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’ |
| 20 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 21 | But it was so late on . |
| 22 | And if it was so insignificant then why can I still see that first kiss even now ? |
| 23 | It was so peaceful out here in contrast , and so redolent of nature 's life . |
| 24 | ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And it was so warm today . |
| 27 | On the one side was the pain and a great big black hole into which he wanted to sink — it was so restful down there — and on the other there were the surgeon , the nurses and his wife Marlene talking to him constantly , trying to get him to react , to fight back . |
| 28 | It was so dodgy though cos all the black kids you know and they were going no man you 're alright in the corner like being left alone |
| 29 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 30 | " It was so miserable so many times . |