Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish .
2 Four years before his death , Chief Joseph had expressed the lifelong wish for which he had fought so persistently and waited so patiently :
3 The evening had started so well and ended so badly .
4 And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ?
5 Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away .
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