Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 2 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 3 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 4 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 8 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 9 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 10 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 12 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 15 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 16 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 17 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 18 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 19 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 22 | The time had passed so quickly that she had n't realised how late it was , or that the daylight had faded to dusk . |
| 23 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 24 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 25 | Their last meeting had ended so unpleasantly that it was difficult to change course suddenly . |
| 26 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 27 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |