Example sentences of "were [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Teague would also be put out if his comeback with second division Moseley were to go so well that he 's in contention for a place . |
| 2 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 3 | ‘ They were separated , but they were separated so fully and so completely , and so soon after their birth , that the threat withdrew . ’ |
| 4 | The children were wedged so tightly that it was difficult to move . |
| 5 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 6 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Their numbers were growing so quickly that the club was formed . |
| 8 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 9 | It caught me with my hand I were going so well and all of a sudden |
| 10 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 11 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 12 | There were marvellous areas of growth , like Caribbean cruising with the fantastic prices and quality incidental to the impact of all the extra tonnage , and the ferries were doing so well that it would be a good idea to discourage people from turning up in hordes at Dover unticketed . |
| 13 | And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing ! |
| 14 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 15 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 16 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 17 | Rose 's hands were shaking so badly that some of the contents of the glass spilled on her dress . |
| 18 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |
| 19 | If the assets of the testator 's estate were not sufficient to pay both his creditors and all the bequests he had left , then first the creditors were satisfied in full , and afterwards the beneficiaries by legacy or trust were paid so far as the estate would allow . |