Example sentences of "so [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Jekub 's ; at least , it was in a big yellow box bolted to part of Jekub , so presumably it had belonged to Jekub . |
| 2 | So eventually it stepped in and moved to buy Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 3 | So eventually it stepped in and bought Unix System Labs . |
| 4 | ‘ To lutin ’ means to tie hair in ELF-locks ; sometimes he would tangle a horse 's mane so badly it had to be cut . |
| 5 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 6 | Emily hesitated then moved to the scrubbed table and sat down abruptly , her legs shaking so badly it seemed they would n't support her . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly screamed , his yell so loud it seemed his lungs would burst . |
| 8 | Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt . |
| 9 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 10 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 11 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 12 | She had gathered her robes around her , sunk to the ground and then had lifted her hand to her face ( so painfully it looked as though her wrist was broken ) with exactly the same gesture with which this man now covered his eyes . |
| 13 | And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’ |
| 14 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 15 | On the uppermost landing , flanked by warders , stood a tall , powerfully-built figure in a dark blue suit , his greying hair slicked back so severely it appeared that he was bald . |
| 16 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 17 | It had always seemed such an impossible dream , but with Louise talking about it so matter-of-factly it seemed almost a fait accompli . |
| 18 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 19 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ she said , but she expressed the truth so artfully it sounded almost as if there was a possibility . |
| 21 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 22 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 23 | At one point the bag rose so high it seemed to disappear into the night . |
| 24 | You said , Masklin , that the plane went so fast it left its sound behind , and so high up there was blue all around it . |
| 25 | Tiller 's theatrical enterprises were expanding so fast it became inconvenient to use his warehouse during the evenings and at weekends , so he took over part of St James 's Hall in Oxford Street , Manchester , adjoining the St James 's Theatre . |
| 26 | My dog was run over by one of them ; the bus was going so fast it did n't even stop . |
| 27 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 28 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 29 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 30 | There 's a good girl , ’ he said , gripping my wrists so tightly it hurt . |