Example sentences of "had [vb pp] so [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 2 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 3 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 4 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 6 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 7 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 8 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 9 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |