Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheltenham 's owners club has proved so popular and so successful thanks to Fuzzy Logic that a second horse is being bought and put into training with the David Nicholson stables … |
| 2 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 3 | It was maddening to have achieved so much and yet to have lost the object of it all . |
| 4 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 5 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 6 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 7 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 8 | They were men from Hanover , exiles who formed the King 's German Legion that had fought so hard and well in Spain . |
| 9 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 10 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 11 | I conclude that they have done so much and so well they will find it hard to let go those duties . |
| 12 | One reason is they have drawn so little and therefore can give so little . |
| 13 | His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive . |