Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their expectations of her ability began to match her developmental level they stopped being so irritable and anxious with her . |
| 2 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 3 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 4 | She 'd been so sure that Marianne would waste no time in spreading her poison — now she did n't know how to start explaining her disappearance . |
| 5 | She 'd been so certain that , as the years went by , she would at last have broken free of his spell . |
| 6 | She 'd been so certain that he would have contacted her by now . |
| 7 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 8 | Their addresses were well received and the publicity they attracted was so beneficial that the BDA in 1976 , by way of follow-up , paid for a lecture tour by Dr. David Denton , another American educationist , whose public meetings in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Carlisle , Newcastle , Doncaster and Oxford were a sell-out and an outstanding success . |
| 9 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 10 | Despite the wind , the cross that followed was so accurate and inviting that Chris Malkin was able to rise to the ball and head it out of the reach of the sprawling Paul Heald to register his 10th goal of the season . |
| 11 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 13 | It comforted him to have some definite complaint against her ; everything else he felt was so vague and somehow shameful . |
| 14 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 15 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 16 | The narrow staircase that had been revealed when Guy had removed a grille from the wall of the tiny chamber had been so black that Isabel had forgotten her embarrassment at their surroundings . |
| 17 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 18 | He had been so certain that his food could not be tampered with . |
| 19 | The survey showed that breeding had been so successful that there were now three times as many swans than at the last census , taken in 1983 . |
| 20 | But his request had been so casual that to refuse would have seemed as if she was making an issue . |
| 21 | German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised . |
| 22 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 23 | Or sometimes Andrew had been so drunk that Iain shouldered him all the way home . |
| 24 | She had planned to get over to her mother 's by the afternoon , but the day had been so rare that neither of them could bear to finish it . |
| 25 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 26 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 27 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 28 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 29 | She had seen him only once during the past three years — two bleak weeks ago at the funeral , when her grief had been so great that she had barely registered his presence . |
| 30 | Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere . |