Example sentences of "so [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 2 | Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
| 4 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |
| 5 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 6 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 7 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 8 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 9 | The temptation to evade the truth was suddenly almost more than Harry could bear , so achingly did he want to go home . |
| 10 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 11 | So long did I have to wait , however , for that second chub , I decide to dispense with floating crust and have a shot at legered crust again . |
| 12 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 13 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 14 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 15 | So greatly did Keir take us into her confidence that , by the end of the evening , we felt like old muckers . |
| 16 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 17 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 18 | George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day . |
| 19 | She was a confident , outgoing girl who usually interacted quite happily with people of either sex and any age , but she was reduced to silence in Luke Scott 's presence , so deeply did he disturb her . |
| 20 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 21 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 22 | In the same way that African opinion elsewhere found its voice in the press , so also did white settler opinion ‘ which was frequently in conflict with the colonial authority . |
| 23 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 24 | So also did the governmental structures of the Merovingian kingdom . |
| 25 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 26 | At this time , however , the problem was almost certainly one of finding outlets , so far did the region lie from major markets , if indeed any great proportion of its products was marketed . |
| 27 | So far did the experience lie beyond the normal province of time , she could not later tell whether it lasted for moments only or extended into hours . |
| 28 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 29 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 30 | There were few children lucky enough to visit the cinema mid-week , as he so often did , and that made Frankie feel particularly privileged . |