Example sentences of "was so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was so strange talking to Creed like this .
2 He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything .
3 I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day .
4 ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us .
5 Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night .
6 There was so much noise around them , children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay .
7 There was so much noise and testing going on .
8 WHY WAS so much noise and trouble caused over the poll tax ?
9 The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart .
10 There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was .
11 Why was it , Lord Taylor asked , that there was so much criticism of individual sentences in the courts ?
12 The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around .
13 Everyone was cheering and the nerves disappeared 'cause it was so much fun .
14 Everyone was cheering and the nerves disappeared 'cause it was so much fun .
15 And like , they 'd say , this was so much money , and mum would say , any chance of a discount ?
16 There was so much happening either on the stage or on the huge banks of videos that it was difficult to take it all in .
17 Then , obviously , there was so much doubt , I could n't .
18 I asked Fleischmann why there was so much concern .
19 Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which
20 I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else .
21 These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food .
22 She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike .
23 But he was so much part of his time , even in the very attempt to withdraw from it , that there was no possibility of his creating a viable alternative to the society in which he lived and worked .
24 But at the same time , she was nettled that her daughter had n't told her she was going out , and the sexual jealousy , which was so much part of their relationship , was irritated by the news .
25 Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms .
26 Mordecai himself was so much part of the shadows that at first when you stepped into the shop you did not see him .
27 When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia .
28 There were moments of course , when Jim and I felt desperately tired and even resentful because there was so much work involved .
29 Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done .
30 Several houses were flooded and the doors could not be forced because there was so much water inside .
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