Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long I 'd managed to hold off your curiosity but I was near to breaking-point . |
| 2 | He 'd had ideas about them buying somewhere of their own , but so far they 'd had to stay as ideas . |
| 3 | Her part of the bargain was to keep that body in good working order , not to abuse it or damage it , and so far she had managed to do that pretty well . |
| 4 | His wife , more canny than she seemed , had already witnessed huge losses over a scheme to promote detachable shirt cuffs , and so far she had managed to sit on the remaining money . |
| 5 | But so far she had refused to take any of them seriously — sensible Caroline . |
| 6 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 7 | So often he had struggled to stay on when others were trying to get him back . |
| 8 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 9 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 10 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 11 | However , the outbreak of war again in 1805 forced Gibbs to close in Cadiz , and once more he had to struggle to survive . |
| 12 | He had feared as much — had known the match was ill-conceived — but once more he had refused to listen to the voice within . |
| 13 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 14 | Her good humour somewhat restored , she stifled a laugh : however much he had wanted to see her again , Geoffrey 's enthusiasm had not lasted the course of the evening . |
| 15 | She 'd used him and then abandoned him , and yet still he 'd continued to protect her . |
| 16 | I do n't trust myself and , apart from Benjamin , I certainly did n't trust anyone else yet I had forgotten to take the key down with me . |
| 17 | So bloody hard he had fought to get those streets behind him . |