Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They begged Franca to come too , and she declined so tactfully that they could all , without awkwardness , smile over the plan and even discuss it .
2 She wanted Andrew and she said so plainly and without pretence .
3 They thought that we were going straight , we and we thought so too that we would just go straight over the , through London .
4 Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project .
5 They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane .
6 Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) .
7 His face was flushed , his eyes glinting with excitement ; he seemed to be having difficulty breathing , too , and he spoke so rapidly that he slurred his words .
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