Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 2 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 7 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 8 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 9 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 10 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 15 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |