Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the leading European in both the Players ' Championship and at New Orleans — and even he admits he has not felt so confident since he approached the St Andrews Open of 1990 , which he won . |
| 2 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 3 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 4 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 5 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 6 | She had not sunk so low as to join the ranks of that sisterhood ! |
| 7 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 8 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 9 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 10 | He had always seemed so stuffy and plain in his dress . |
| 11 | As he kissed and caressed her in turn , Hilary did n't think she had ever felt so happy or relaxed — well , relaxed until his mouth roved below her navel . |
| 12 | But even if Lenin was correct in his analysis of the capitalist-imperialist roots of the First World War , by the 1950s and 1960s the capitalist global system and the Third World had both changed so much that many Marxists felt the need to generate new theories to explain what was happening and to show the way forward from a political point of view . |
| 13 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 15 | She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched . |
| 16 | She had never flown so fast and with such ease before . |
| 17 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 18 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 19 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 20 | I have n't done so bad since I went have I . |
| 21 | ‘ Have n't laughed so much since General Zia got blown up . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 23 | I have never felt so much that I was in a foreign country with seemingly infinite resources available for any purpose you care to name , from stretch automobiles to space travel . |
| 24 | Soon after lie came to the West Riding he said to me , " This is the place for me ; I have never felt so happy as being in the North . " |
| 25 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 26 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |