Example sentences of "was so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so close now she could barely breathe , could feel his warm breath on her skin . |
| 2 | He was so close now I could count his teeth . |
| 3 | That , Maggie knew , was why Rachel was so unhappy now . |
| 4 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 5 | And it was so warm today . |
| 6 | He was so cool now , so calm , and the fact that she was feeling utterly wretched did not bother him a bit . |
| 7 | And if it was so insignificant then why can I still see that first kiss even now ? |
| 8 | He was so vague though . |
| 9 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 10 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 11 | But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’ |
| 12 | I also admired the BBC 's old " Tonight " programme , fronted by Cliff Michelmore , which was so much ahead of its time in news-magazine terms , by its imaginative use of film and the quality of its scripts . |
| 13 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 14 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 15 | But the room was so small so no matter where you sat there you 'd be warm . |
| 16 | Indeed , the boom in architecture and property development was so great precisely because nothing whatever diverted the flow of capital from what The Builder in 1848 called ‘ one half of the world … on the lookout for investment ’ to ‘ the other half continually in search of eligible family residences ’ into serving the urban poor , who clearly did not belong in the world at all . |
| 17 | This feeling was so strong there that he almost expected to see Linkworth standing there , watching him . |
| 18 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 19 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 20 | Breeze was so hot already that she could n't blush any more , but her eyes flashed as she faced the witch , and shook her head . |
| 21 | She was so animated again , it was a joy to Constanza . |
| 22 | Her room was so grubby too , with nothing but a bed in it and that bidet and that bit of rag for a curtain over the small old propped-up suitcase and some clothes . |
| 23 | " It was so miserable so many times . |
| 24 | Oh I , I was so frightened yesterday when he came round . |
| 25 | A majority of the United Kingdom workforce decided against strike action and the mood of the Glasgow workers was so clear yesterday that a vote did not have to be taken . |
| 26 | He went yesterday , I was gon na come up this afternoon and tell you when Peter came home , ca n't leave him , he was so naughty yesterday , he licked , |
| 27 | Piers was so crude afterwards . |
| 28 | I had no idea it was so lovely here ! ’ |
| 29 | It was so lovely here . |
| 30 | I was so hungry now I could hardly think . |