Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It was impossible to believe that they had fallen so mathematically into place by themselves .
4 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 .
5 I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment .
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