Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat was a modern German vessel with fittings so basic it looked unfinished . |
| 2 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 3 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 4 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 5 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 6 | The smell was so bad it made some of his children sick : |
| 7 | In the decade after 1833 it became apparent that the district courts , which had original jurisdiction in all civil cases and most criminal ones , were unable to handle the litigation brought before them without long delays . |
| 8 | Er I have n't unfortunately , no , but I 'm pretty sure it said two hundred pounds a week . |
| 9 | Me and an aunt , just outside Norwich we used to go up for Sunday dinner it was very nice along the river there , and a , I thought the very nice part of cathedral , there 's a cathedral lies very low it had some very nice erm , mm , what you call it , close , is it ? |