Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 2 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 3 | She got to know so much about the individual and her home circumstances . |
| 4 | Excitement mounted ; the hills we got to know so well ; on the left Heathmynd , then Rhadley and Linley Hill ; and then on the right the dramatic landmark of the Beech Avenue curling over the top of Norbury . |
| 5 | ‘ Because he was forever making dens in trees , ’ said his nan , who knew this was another , ‘ and one day a big crow flew up and scared him and he lost his hold and fell on to his head and stopped growing so let that be a lesson to you . ’ |
| 6 | She was a beautiful woman who had found him attractive , or at least pretended to do so . |
| 7 | As he pretended to do so he hissed in his son 's ear , " God grant that I may not die until I have had my revenge on you . " |
| 8 | He often worked late and most of the Lab staff knew that he proposed to do so last night . |
| 9 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 10 | Oswald , carrying Goneril 's letter , and with the added instructions to kill Gloucester should he find him , tried to do so but was killed by Edgar , who discovered their secret plans to kill Albany ( King Lear , IV.vi.227–80 ) . |
| 11 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 12 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 13 | But for those who tried to do so , there seemed to be only a progressive involvement in guilt . |
| 14 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 15 | The very fact that he felt impelled to do so told its own story . |
| 16 | Some like Seronatus and Victorius moved to do so even before 476 . |
| 17 | The uninterested male voice promised to do so . |
| 18 | Joshua promised to do so . |
| 19 | Instead , black married women stopped having so many children ; black unmarried women continued to have them as before . |
| 20 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 21 | At the sound of my voice they stopped whining so I did n't know where to look . |
| 22 | Edward Hamer , of Llanidloes , asked how New Zealand company Fortex , which is currently considering two shortlisted sites one near the Powys village , and another in Lockerbie , Scotland expected to create so many jobs when his company could do it with half the number . |
| 23 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 24 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 25 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 26 | The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we 'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end . |
| 27 | He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her . |
| 28 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |
| 29 | She climbed into bed , leaning back against the pillows he 'd stacked so expertly . |
| 30 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |