Example sentences of "there was so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us . |
| 2 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 3 | I asked Fleischmann why there was so much concern . |
| 4 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 5 | When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia . |
| 6 | There were moments of course , when Jim and I felt desperately tired and even resentful because there was so much work involved . |
| 7 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 8 | There was so much love and companionship and understanding between these three people that she was hurt by it . |
| 9 | There was so much laughter , so much excitement , so much love . |
| 10 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 11 | There was so much happening either on the stage or on the huge banks of videos that it was difficult to take it all in . |
| 12 | Several houses were flooded and the doors could not be forced because there was so much water inside . |
| 13 | A breed society had been established in 1910 ; the original 1912 herdbook lapsed after a decade because there was so much crossing with larger breeds , but it was revived in 1982 . |
| 14 | Then , obviously , there was so much doubt , I could n't . |
| 15 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
| 16 | The mines in the Dailly coalfield were notorious for gas and there was a joke in the county 's other mining areas that there was so much gas underground at Dailly that the farmers had to use a Davy safety lamp when ploughing the fields . |
| 17 | Her heels felt sore , and because there was so much walking , they seemed to be getting worse as the morning went on . |
| 18 | These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food . |
| 19 | Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night . |
| 20 | There was so much noise around them , children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay . |
| 21 | There was so much noise and testing going on . |
| 22 | I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day . |
| 23 | Why was it , Lord Taylor asked , that there was so much criticism of individual sentences in the courts ? |
| 24 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 25 | It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning . |
| 26 | The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart . |
| 27 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 28 | Support in South Ronaldsay and the neighbouring island of Burray had grown so strong , and there was so much anger , that it was decided within the community that this strength should be channelled into action . |
| 29 | There was so much anger in her she could not see what might be done with it . |
| 30 | But there was so much blood — blood on her red petticoat , blood on her black dress and her white veil , blood on the executioner 's shoes , blood all over the floor . |