Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 2 | Although they had quarrelled so bitterly Mrs Gotobed had still loved Mr Evans , deep down in her heart , and the message she had asked Carrie to give him would show him this plain , . |
| 3 | ‘ I think they need to make a much stronger factual case than they have made so far , ’ Professor Schachter said . |
| 4 | If those opposing the imposition of formal European Directives and Regulations are to win their case , they may have to show much greater enthusiasm for the emergence of voluntary European collective bargaining than they have shown so far . |
| 5 | Now , I agree with the point that you 've just made and I 've heard some other people say , well the teaching that they 've got so far is n't going to influence what they see in their second year . |
| 6 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 7 | It was impossible to believe that they had fallen so mathematically into place by themselves . |
| 8 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
| 9 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 10 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 11 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 12 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 13 | It is difficult to pinpoint frailties amongst the forwards at the moment , because they have played so well , but to accept that they are peaking now would be folly . |