Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 5 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 6 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 7 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |