Example sentences of "so [adv] i [verb] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long I 'd managed to hold off your curiosity but I was near to breaking-point . |
| 2 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 3 | So far I have tried to argue that the competences people have in dealing with the outside world vary in kind , adequacy , number and distribution . |
| 4 | Mediating devices include phrases like , " as I have shown above " , " so far I have tried to argue that " , " it may be helpful here to distinguish between " , " in this section " , " in my introductory paragraph " , etc . |
| 5 | Office , who are setting up a permanent acid rain monitor as well , so then we 'd have to , so then I 've got to get back in touch with that person . |
| 6 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 7 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |