Example sentences of "so [adj] [was/were] [adv] " 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 most popular , very busy person and er , since then more and more shops er have been bought by the Asians and now I think er we cater for , for every need and there are some pubs as well which have been bought by the Asian and The last straw I think is the Conservative club and bought by Mr and two of his er partners .
3 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 .
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 the police-sergeant had been so pleased !
7 So that was why the blacks were up , thought Willie .
8 So that was why they never appeared on TWW .
9 So that was why I had all those art lessons !
10 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 .
11 So that was why she was excited .
12 So that was why .
13 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 .
14 So that was when my daughter Lilya and wife Zina suggested that I should turn to Vladimir Semenovich Semenov .
15 So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children .
16 ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’
17 So that was over .
18 so that was not given the go ahead in nineteen eighty seven
19 So that was not having a lot of flipping luck is she ?
20 He had the casting vote , as chairmen do , and he voted to say that he thought opting out would be good for Banbury School , but of course he was the chairman of the parents group that was trying to opt out , so that was not greeted very well amongst some of us , I think .
21 So that was n't he answer : the transformer output voltage really was too high .
22 So that was n't it .
23 so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ?
24 okay , so that was n't er explored
25 So that was n't bad going .
26 so that was n't so bad .
27 erm I believe , in fact , that the Oxfordshire County Council provides an excellent quality of education erm so that was n't the argument .
28 we were lucky cos it did n't start to rain did it till we got back in the coach ? so that was well planned .
29 So that was just like an ordinary
30 Adjustment is not complete , it 's partial alright , so we 're going to say that supply adjusts in the following manner , right , according to the partial adjustment hypothesis alright , so changes in actual supply alright , will be delta of the difference between the desired level of output for T , right and the actual level of input T minus one alright , plus er alright , so that was just our partial adjustment model that we looked at last week , right , we 'll call that equation three okay right .
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