Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The prestigious Antiquaires à Paris group of dealers who specialise in eighteenth-century French furniture albeit with many sidelines is back again this year for the first time since 1986 , although with nothing to compare with the extravagantly decorated and richly stocked collective stand which caused so much jealousy then .
2 ‘ We spent so much time together .
3 Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there .
4 I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up .
5 Alternatively , they lost so much money so frequently on them that they became disillusioned with all options and by proxy any other financial instruments .
6 Her hair was long and black as a raven 's feather , untied so one wing partially covered her patch-covered missing eye .
7 ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along .
8 On 27 August Cameroon followed suit , and Congo did so one day later .
9 Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him .
10 He had so much energy even when he got old , he had so much energy .
11 In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’
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