Example sentences of "so [adj] was [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 2 | So that was why they never appeared on TWW . |
| 3 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 4 | So that was why he drove north early every Monday morning ! |
| 5 | So that was why he was so bad-tempered . |
| 6 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 7 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 8 | So that was why I had all those art lessons ! |
| 9 | So that was why she was excited . |
| 10 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 11 | So that was n't he answer : the transformer output voltage really was too high . |
| 12 | So that was n't it . |
| 13 | So that was where he disappeared to . |
| 14 | So that was how we came to be sitting in the darkened room with Granny 's coffin on the table , waiting for the neighbours to come and show their last respects . |
| 15 | So that was how he kept sane . |
| 16 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 17 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 18 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 19 | So that was how it had started . |
| 20 | So this was how it was going to be from now on , Maria accepted as she turned to go and find the keys . |
| 21 | So this was all it took ! |
| 22 | So this was so they had a pizza sort of shared it out between ten people . |
| 23 | But it was so runny was n't it when it was in the |
| 24 | but so nice was n't it ? |
| 25 | Ever so close was n't it ? |