Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her anxiety she registered both the relief that Phoebe should have acted so promptly and a tiny flicker of jealousy , which she quickly quashed . |
| 2 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 3 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 4 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 5 | It seemed impossible that in a few short days her life could have changed so dramatically and fundamentally , and she told Rohan so . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 7 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 8 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 9 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 10 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 11 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 12 | Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors . |
| 13 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 14 | A War Wagon can continue to fight so long as there is at least one crew member left alive . |