Example sentences of "had worked so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 2 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 3 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 4 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 5 | He arrived with a Radio Shack hand-held computer phone dialler and a two-speed microcassette recorder for Coleman to use with the code that had worked so successfully before , based on a standard telephone touch-tone pad . |
| 6 | This may seem strange since he had worked so closely with Bushe-Fox , whose ideas and techniques were far in advance of his day . |
| 7 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 8 | The never-slow-on-the-uptake Miss Minogue was not about to lose control of the carefully constructed image she had worked so hard on and that was a victory which put many a sharp-practising lensman on his guard from then on . |
| 9 | In particular , men like Paul-Henri Spaak , who had worked so hard for the EEC , were conscious of the fact that many economic interests within the Six supported the foundation of the EEC primarily because of the advantages they believed would be accruable to themselves . |
| 10 | All his savings , which he had worked so hard for in the last ten years , had been spent on renting the farm . |
| 11 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 12 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 13 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |