Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've spent so long trying to block it all out . |
| 3 | This is the real point which lies at the heart of the present appeal ; in a sense , everything which I have said so far has done no more than set the stage for its consideration . |
| 4 | Many of the sort of examples I have cited so far have been pushed aside by theorising palaeontologists with the disparaging term " facies fossils " . |
| 5 | My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice . |
| 6 | What I have described so far relates in general to the lives of women in the peasant communities in many parts of the Indian sub-continent , but the details I have given mainly concern women in East and West Punjab . |
| 7 | What I have described so far applies to people direct from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 8 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 9 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 10 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 11 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |
| 12 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 13 | But as you 've spent so long thinking it over , I suspect that , deep down , you 've decided it is n't really worth the risk . |
| 14 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 15 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 16 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 17 | Her pity for the man she had hurt so deeply made her behave more kindly towards him than was perhaps sensible . |
| 18 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 19 | She had left so much undone . |
| 20 | Those who have escaped so far wait nervously , fearing the worst . |
| 21 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 22 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 23 | What you have expressed so far leads me to believe that you totally agree with the concept of ethnic cleansing concentration camps because , unfortunately , such bigoted homophobia suggests equally bigoted sexism , racism and nationalism . |
| 24 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 25 | When you have done so please sign it and return it to me immediately in the pre-paid envelope provided . |
| 26 | sort of everything we 've had so far 's been pretty general . |
| 27 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 28 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 29 | Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job . |
| 30 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |