Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd never worked so hard at anything in my life ; nor , once I 'd started , had I wanted anything so badly . |
2 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
3 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
4 | Thomson , who again again failed to break his run of poor form in this championship , bemoaned : ‘ I was very nervous and do n't think I 've ever played so badly . |
5 | ‘ I do n't think I 've ever worked so hard . ’ |
6 | I 've never felt so well protected . |
7 | ‘ I 've never worked so hard in my life , ’ she told Anne and Julia when she called to see them . |
8 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
9 | ‘ But I did not declare for the Light-Bringer , and I have never done so since . |
10 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
11 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |