Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] so [adv] [to-vb] " 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 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 5 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 6 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 9 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 10 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 11 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |