Example sentences of "so [adj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So pleasant was it at Windrush and so proud were we five of our ‘ country estate ’ , as it were , that there was seldom an evening without visitors , and the weekends were sometimes overcrowded . |
| 2 | At first it was even hard to tell whether or not she could hear , so unused were her senses . |
| 3 | Medusa was the Queen and so hideous was her face that anyone who looked upon it was turned to stone . |
| 4 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 5 | So strong was her need to talk to Simon , that it never occurred to her that he might not actually live there . |
| 6 | I thought it unlikely that Xanthe would ever sleep in that car again , so strong was her present reaction . |
| 7 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 8 | She had conquered that by an effort of the will which had once been almost her enemy , so strong was it , but had , in enabling her to live calmly among so many enemies in male form , become her friend . |
| 9 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 10 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 11 | Indeed so professional was her performance that halfway through the time allotted to us , we found we had finished . |
| 12 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 13 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 14 | So that was their secret sorrow . |
| 15 | So that was what he had meant by seven lengths of the corridor ! |
| 16 | So that was what it was all about ! |
| 17 | So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area . |
| 18 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 19 | So that was what he had meant when they 'd met up again . |
| 20 | So that was what they thought she had . |
| 21 | And I thought , well I 'll break it down so That was what it was , I 'd pulled all the fractions together , put them into a common denominator . |
| 22 | So that was what the search was all about . |
| 23 | He missed the green on the right and needed a good putt even for his six — so that was him gone , we felt . |
| 24 | So that was them . |
| 25 | So that was them , so that 's eighty years ago . |
| 26 | So that was them . |
| 27 | So that was me with a habit and two kids to look after on 36 quid a week social … . |
| 28 | So that was me destitute , like . |
| 29 | So that was me on . |
| 30 | Good so that was I like that because you worked it out you did n't look it with table you |