Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never worked so hard at anything in my life ; nor , once I 'd started , had I wanted anything so badly . |
| 2 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 3 | I had not walked so far for years . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 5 | Thomson , who again again failed to break his run of poor form in this championship , bemoaned : ‘ I was very nervous and do n't think I 've ever played so badly . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I 've ever worked so hard . ’ |
| 7 | I 've never felt so well protected . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never worked so hard in my life , ’ she told Anne and Julia when she called to see them . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't done so badly : says Howard . |
| 10 | But I have n't said so obviously . |
| 11 | ‘ I have not forgotten my promise to help you find a place , although I have not done so yet . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 14 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But I did not declare for the Light-Bringer , and I have never done so since . |
| 16 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
| 17 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 18 | " Perhaps you 'd better do so now . " |
| 19 | Er if you want to take er use of that facility then if you have n't done so you 'd better do so fairly quickly . |
| 20 | Because if not , you 'd better say so now and I 'll go away and never bother you again . |
| 21 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 22 | When she looked at him closely , Jill felt sorry for him and rather wished she had n't spoken so pointedly . |
| 23 | After all , before he had proposed , she had not seen so very much of Havvie , and she had been so flattered that it had not struck her how banal his conversation was , and how limited . |
| 24 | She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue . |
| 25 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 26 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 27 | Winnie , dear Jesus , beneath the bed , and she had never moved so fast , would the fat sow never rise ? |
| 28 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 29 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 30 | When Thursday of that week came round , Leith was beginning to think she had never worked so hard . |