Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made them so unpopular that they are n't even commemorated in a country name . |
| 2 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 3 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
| 4 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 5 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 6 | It is also true that to wrestle with his thought demands a rethinking of the Gospel : that his students found him so witty and stimulating a teacher is understandable . |
| 7 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 8 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 9 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
| 10 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 11 | Just why she found it so disturbing that Luke was planning to fly her she was n't quite sure . |
| 12 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 13 | And yet in these , he made himself so ridiculous as to become an entertainment . |
| 14 | As for ( b ) , by supporting Iraq in the Gulf war Mr Arafat made himself so unpopular that most Arab governments no longer want him to be involved . |
| 15 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 16 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 17 | He hit one so hard that he later died , and injured another so badly that he is still in hospital . |
| 18 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 19 | Cor but he got him so riled and you know . |
| 20 | It made him so excited that he had to cover his mouth with his free hand in order to stifle a ripple of laughter . |
| 21 | This made him so angry that he threw a knife at me , which cut my neck , and then he rushed towards me , swearing violently . |
| 22 | His family had protected him when he was a child and youth , and the search for another such secure haven was one of the dominant notes of his life : both in its denial during his marriage to Vivien which rendered him so anxious and insecure , and in its triumphant restitution at the end of his life . |
| 23 | On this occasion we thought it so important that we invited the bishop to lay hands on the team as they were sent out and began to meet on Sunday mornings , initially in a large sitting room as we searched for suitable premises . |
| 24 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 25 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 26 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 27 | I watched a man working on a special cookery book for a mother who is both blind and diabetic ; he made it so obvious that he valued the opportunity to make some reparation that I wonder whether more opportunities like this could not be created . |
| 28 | He felt her grow rigid at his touch , made it so light that she hardly knew that it was there . |
| 29 | He squeezed her so hard that she gasped , and for so long that Carrie grew restless . |
| 30 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |