Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] so [adv] and " in BNC.

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1 She said the immense pressure she had been under took its toll and at times she was so emotionally and physically exhausted she was ‘ just hanging on by my fingernails ’ .
2 Both of them were so beautifully and evenly brown that clothes seemed superfluous .
3 And when she spoke it was so suddenly and decisively that Charlotte felt her heart pound at her words .
4 It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support .
5 We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational .
6 Snobbery , as he knew , if subtly and intelligently interpreted , is vastly different from racialism , and one reason why Waugh was not a racialist is that he was so inveterately and intricately a snob , and devotedly believed in shadings and gradings .
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