Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , Wendy received six-monthly inseminations , but she felt ill-at-ease : ‘ They were always done so impersonally and I was going through such an emotional , personal experience . ’ |
| 2 | At a recent rugby jamboree in Kimberley the unification of these two bodies was formally completed so now it is up to the various officials and administrators to make the new South African Rugby Football Union really work . |
| 3 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 4 | A master might also hit you with a pencil box on the buttocks , if you had n't learnt your " verbs " and I was once shaken so violently for crossing out a word in my exercise book when I had been told not to , that I nearly fell down with giddiness . |
| 5 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 6 | Another of the Brunel side was allegedly kicked so hard his back was cracked . |
| 7 | Although it was never stated so baldly , one implication of the Samuelson-Solow and Lipsey approach is that , since is the target rate of unemployment , it is , in essence , the full employment rate of unemployment : it is that unemployment rate which the authorities regard as attainable , sustainable and , taking the good with the bad , ‘ correct ’ . |