Example sentences of "so [was/were] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , and so were Mrs Taylor 's twins , Joey and Harry , and little Billy . |
| 2 | So were Mrs Patel 's , who had cocked her head on one side to listen better . |
| 3 | So were Somerset Maugham , whom I admire , and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 4 | So were Magdalene College , and Ramsey 's father , and Archbishop Fisher , and Edward Wynn who was now the Bishop of Ely . |
| 5 | The Magistrate was smiling , and so were Mr Rose and Mr Ford , and so were the Schleissner brothers . |
| 6 | I was a stocky baby with good bone , but perhaps my ears were on the large side — but then so were Clark Gable 's and he did n't do so bad . |
| 7 | So was Stanford Roberts , for that matter . |
| 8 | Philip Burton was also in it ( no doubt he got his ward the part ) and so was Dylan Thomas . |
| 9 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 10 | So was Gordon Brand , jun , runner-up to Nobilo in Valencia a fortnight ago who had saddled himself with an opening 77 . |
| 11 | So was Dr Carrington exerting a right — some would say a fundamental right — to self-determination , or was he capitulating under the weight of an intolerable burden ? |
| 12 | So was Alex Trocchi 's Project Sigma , the Situationist-inspired intergalactic switchboard of information , a project for ‘ invisible insurrection ’ . |
| 13 | So was NICK FLETCHER … |
| 14 | Bobby Locke did top the Order of Merit in 1946 , 1950 and 1954 , and the only other South African to do so was Dale Hayes in 1975 . |
| 15 | So was Chancellor Howe , as his were stolen on a train , along with £100 . |
| 16 | So was Mrs Keble , who 'd taken eight pounds odd on the tombola . |
| 17 | So was Allington Naylor . |
| 18 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 19 | And so was Sgurr Dearg . |
| 20 | Andrew Allan was enthusiastic , and so was Judith Evelyn . |
| 21 | ‘ So was Sid Hope . ’ |
| 22 | So was Alice Dodds , who lived with her family at the far end of the Butts . |
| 23 | Chuck Berry and Dustin Hoffman were feathers in our cap , and so was Harrison Ford , who is known for being ‘ a very private person ’ as they say in Los Angeles . |
| 24 | Harbury was there , so was Linda Finch . |
| 25 | She eyed him shrewdly and said Mr Fairchild was very nice , very nice indeed , and so was Miss Blundell . |
| 26 | So was Mr Lamont in last year 's , pre-election , Budget : ‘ I have no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT . ’ |
| 27 | He was like that — so was Mr. Andrew — thought of the fleet as part of his family . |
| 28 | So was Sri Lanka 's disaster drearily inevitable ? |
| 29 | You remember they did the changeover five or six years ago now , and the schools were mi er were getting mix er er they were mixed sexes and they were Archbishop Holgate 's was going to be two sexes and so was Queen Anne 's . |
| 30 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |