Example sentences of "had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 2 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 3 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 4 | A thin , silky mist hung over the city , reminding Merrill of the water-colour townscapes which , in her gentler moods , Elise had painted so well . |
| 5 | His pupils were developing minds of their own , behaving out of character , no longer the dull but devoted group of enthusiasts he had taught so constructively for six months . |
| 6 | He stopped all experimentation at this stage to examine the information he had gathered so far . |
| 7 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 8 | I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , that 's a good start ! ’ she thought , looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing , but of course they had n't . |
| 10 | Her long life had witnessed so many incredible events , but as the final twist of fortune engulfed her , she was already too decrepit , mentally and physically , to come to terms with it . |
| 11 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 12 | Legh offered twenty pounds , the gem which his dead mistress had prized so much , and some gold earrings , saying that the infant was to be called Topaz . |
| 13 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 14 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 15 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |
| 16 | Not when he had stooped so low , exploited the fact that she was a woman , used his own sexual ego to ridicule her and dominate . |
| 17 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 18 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 19 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 20 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 21 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 22 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 23 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 24 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 25 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 26 | Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case . |
| 27 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 28 | Enjoying what I had heard so much , I started asking questions , only to realise that the equipment in these cars alone was worth about £3500 , and installation costs were on top of that ! |
| 29 | Corbett grinned his acknowledgement and continued into the abbey , pleased that the journey was done and the information he had received so helpful . |
| 30 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |