Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 2 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 3 | Linda Darnell despised him because he had treated her so badly when making Fallen Angel and Forever Amber . |
| 4 | He sat up and left the bed upon which she had given herself so frequently since their wedding day . |
| 5 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |
| 6 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 7 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 8 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 9 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 10 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 11 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 13 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 14 | But , of course , many of our means of communication are instinctive and we have practised them so frequently since childhood that we choose the means of encoding a message almost without thought . |