Example sentences of "[vb pp] [was/were] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 2 | So impressed was it with the Darlington operation that it also adopted the design of the questionnaire and the logo . |
| 3 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 4 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 5 | But so seized was he by the divine knowledge , so ‘ evangelistically ’ fixed with its potency , that his exploits on its behalf quickly created his legend . |
| 6 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 7 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 8 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 9 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |