Example sentences of "so [adv] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 2 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 3 | The letters they exchanged were formal , just words on a piece of paper ; the warmth they had all shared for so long was missing . |
| 4 | From some depth of courage and purpose she who had been silent so long was finding the will to speak at last . |
| 5 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 6 | Dr Rafaelo so far was proving a bit of a flop . |
| 7 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 8 | The firm they had nursed so devotedly was wrecked by a series of hammer blows : |