Example sentences of "it [vb past] so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 2 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 3 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 4 | It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity . |
| 5 | ‘ It caused so much pressure inside the home that I 'm not surprised Denise has had enough . |
| 6 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 7 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 8 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 9 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 10 | As it walked so browning leaves fell from its body . |
| 11 | This was essentially a biological approach , influenced by the taxonomic studies of Ray , and it aroused so much interest that Ray himself undertook a Latin translation . |
| 12 | It meant so many things , but only one to him . |
| 13 | In fact it is more of a puzzle to work out why it took so many decades to become established ( Hatton 1986 ) . |
| 14 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 15 | It ruffled so many feathers , the Robins were reinstated . |
| 16 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 17 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 18 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
| 19 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 20 | Oh that 's why it had so much impact , because it really was different on that . |