Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 2 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 3 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 4 | And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ? |
| 5 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 6 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 7 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 8 | Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did . |
| 9 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 10 | Bathsheba 's young heart was full of pity for this sensitive man who had spoken so simply and honestly . |
| 11 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 12 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 13 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 14 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 15 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 16 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 17 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 18 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 19 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 20 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 21 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 22 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 23 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 24 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 25 | Four years before his death , Chief Joseph had expressed the lifelong wish for which he had fought so persistently and waited so patiently : |
| 26 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |