Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 2 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 3 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 4 | The Physic Garden had become so well stocked with rarities as to rival any other garden in Europe . |
| 5 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 6 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |