Example sentences of "so [adj] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 2 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 3 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 4 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 5 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 6 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 7 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 8 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 9 | Besides , it is not quite so urgent as I thought . |
| 10 | And they were so patient as they waited for me to finish with my other visitors . |
| 11 | His face was so tense as he held her and gazed deep into her eyes . |
| 12 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 13 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 14 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 15 | Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction . |
| 16 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 17 | The station was practically empty of people and Emily felt so alone as she stepped on to the train . |
| 18 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 19 | The complex , serpentine weaving of colours emphasised his impressive shoulders , and in faded old Levis and scuffed desert boots he looked so wonderful as he lounged on the sofa that she could have thrown herself in his arms there and then . |
| 20 | As a team with which to go goat-hunting it was not quite so exiguous as he implied . |
| 21 | The water buoyed them and Ruth had never experienced anything so erotic as she dragged her hands down his wet back to grasp his hips to her own . |
| 22 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 23 | ‘ That do n't change anything , ’ said Bonanza , but he did n't sound so convincing as he had a moment before . |
| 24 | His words indicated that he was n't so young as he looked , and she said , ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 25 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 26 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 27 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 28 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 29 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 30 | In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets . |