Example sentences of "was so [adj] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 2 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 3 | It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified . |
| 4 | George Eliot clearly admires the one at Cheverel Manor , ‘ which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its architectural beauty like a cathedral ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock was so confident of victory he allowed a camera crew in to his secret hideaway in a converted 17th-century lodge to film him and Glenys listening to the announcement of the exit polls on television . |
| 6 | Before leaving him , we shook hands and he gave us each a yellow , fine-pointed Biro pen with which he was so fond of writing : a signal and a last gesture of kindness . |
| 7 | She was so full of self-hatred that she made life into a torture chamber . |
| 8 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 9 | ‘ Sunnie was so full of life and in the past 12 months she and Jackie have lived a whole new lifetime together . ’ |
| 10 | She was so full of life . |
| 11 | She was so full of life . |
| 12 | He was so full of life , it was — well , you felt you could light your cigarette off him . ’ |
| 13 | The air was so full of sunlight that Ruth , drained and weary , winced from it . |
| 14 | She was so full of hope and decency and trust . |
| 15 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 16 | Up until the age of 33 , I managed to push this turmoil to the back of my mind , although I 'd always had trouble with relationships because I was so full of self-doubt , and succeeded in destroying any relationship that seemed to be leading anywhere . |
| 17 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 18 | This started at about midday and went on until late afternoon , when everyone was so full of food that they could hardly move . |
| 19 | ‘ The cab was so full of smoke , I could n't see into it , ’ Paul Sharples said . |
| 20 | with her cholesterol , that they actually , she was so sick of turkey and chicken , and fish and er she 's had no cream cakes . |
| 21 | In the early days , Paisley was so short of support that he press-ganged people into standing for election . |
| 22 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 23 | She was so short of breath that it was an effort to speak . |