Example sentences of "he [was/were] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He was so vague though .
2 He was so close now she could barely breathe , could feel his warm breath on her skin .
3 He was so close now I could count his teeth .
4 He was so cool now , so calm , and the fact that she was feeling utterly wretched did not bother him a bit .
5 Although Tiller still produced the Winter Gardens show every year , he delegated more and more of the work there to his assistant directors as he was so busy abroad .
6 ‘ If he was so happy why did he start an affair with Nicola ? ’ asked the superintendent , leaning forward in her seat .
7 He went yesterday , I was gon na come up this afternoon and tell you when Peter came home , ca n't leave him , he was so naughty yesterday , he licked ,
8 I could not understand what he was so worried about .
9 He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years
10 I did n't think he was so lucky now .
11 They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) .
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