Example sentences of "was so [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 2 | Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember , it was so awful it seemed a lifetime , why do you endlessly bother me , why do you carp so ? ’ |
| 4 | Victoria showed her round the house , which was so tiny it did n't take long and Elizabeth told the Pack about English Brownies . |
| 5 | ‘ It was so simple it shames me . |
| 6 | The uniform he was wearing seemed to have been assembled from outfits designed to fit several very different people : the sleeves were too long and the neck too wide , while the cap was so small it had left a pink welt around his forehead . |
| 7 | The cottage was so small it looked more like a doll 's house than a human dwelling . |
| 8 | Tait 's smile was so faint it needed a microscope to detect . |
| 9 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 10 | This monster had eight heads and eight tails and was so long it stretched over eight hills and eight valleys . |
| 11 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 12 | The temptation was so strong it made her feel breathless . |
| 13 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 14 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 15 | The scenery was so vast it seemed they were n't moving at all . |
| 16 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
| 17 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 18 | Glennis O'Connor , a secretary in London 's East End , whose son Conrad is now 14 months , says , ‘ I had a horrible time trying to breastfeed — I had one nipple that was so sore it felt like hot pepper was being rubbed into it each time I fed Conrad . |
| 19 | The bird , which had fallen off the back of a lorry in Leeds , West Yorks , was so solid it tore a hole in the sump of his Fiat Panda . |
| 20 | The report says the management was so weak it failed to control the savagery and racism . |
| 21 | ‘ That cross-court angle was so acute it did n't exist ’ — the occasional hyperbole was always forgiven . |
| 22 | And I I went but it was so embarrassing it made me ill . |
| 23 | Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep . |
| 24 | The jut of his maleness against her had unleashed an erotic force which was so powerful it scared her . |
| 25 | The hat was so new it gave off a faint , expensive smell . |
| 26 | Her laugh was so loud it attracted glances from people in the room . |
| 27 | Alison 's denial was so forceful it attracted the attention of a couple at a neighbouring table . |
| 28 | that 's my fear coming , that 's what makes me run away from her , I was so scared it seems to be either come like , what you call ? |
| 29 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 30 | It was so big it did n't even fit inside the shed . |