Example sentences of "had so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 2 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 3 | Throughout her life she had so successfully controlled her emotions that she was now capable of responding only to the demands of music . |
| 4 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 5 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 6 | Such rulers could defend the social order by force assuredly ; but by replacing the moral authority of the totem-father with the force of arms and the ingenuities of police control they ran the risk of invalidating the purely psychological and religious prohibitions which had supported the old order and had so successfully promoted human social advancement . |
| 7 | Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place . |
| 8 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 9 | Given that framework , the glaring injustice to which the Whigs pointed was that the distribution of seats in Parliament should secure the ‘ representation of green mounds , of stone wall , even of a pig sty , while many of our most populous manufacturing towns remain unrepresented ’ ; that one propertied class should be overwhelmingly represented while another had so little say in Parliament . |
| 10 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 11 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 12 | Suddenly he realized the flaw in the will Marius Steen had so hastily improvised in the South of France . |
| 13 | To be once again in the arms of a man , even one whom she had welcomed , not one who was attacking her , and whom she hated , had undone the self-control which she had so rigorously exercised . |
| 14 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 15 | His daughter 's latest love — and why she had so precipitately left him , he was about to find out . |
| 16 | As representatives of the sovereign nation whose king was a captive in Talleyrand 's chateau , the patriots claimed to supplant the structure of the ancien régime that had so signally failed in the supreme test of patriotism . |
| 17 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 18 | It was as if , during the time when she had so strangely loved him , she had relied upon Patrick , hoped for him , dreamed of him , run to him as to his love for her : a love which had never existed and could now never exist . |
| 19 | But when Dr Neil Cochrane returned to the business of Miss Sally-Anne McAllister who had so strangely arrived in his home he was as firmly pressing of her as he was before . |
| 20 | The proof of this is to be found in the calendar of saints ' days for the Canterbury community which he had so offensively purged . |
| 21 | He upset the Tories , who had so vigorously defended his right to the succession , by attacking the Anglican monopoly in worship and education , and then by punishing recalcitrant Anglicans in a specially erected Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes ; he enlarged his standing army , appointing a number of Catholics to prominent positions of command ; and he interfered with local franchises and borough corporations in order to try to secure the election of a Parliament which would be subservient to his wishes . |
| 22 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 23 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 24 | The commons needed little encouragement to join his opposition to the king 's demands , since further taxation was particularly unwelcome in the wake of recent extortionate taxes and purveyances ; as for the lords , they were concerned over the question of peerage rights which the archbishop had so astutely raised . |
| 25 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 26 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 27 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 28 | ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended . |
| 29 | For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile , stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped . |
| 30 | He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body . |