Example sentences of "had [verb] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 2 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 3 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 4 | They were men from Hanover , exiles who formed the King 's German Legion that had fought so hard and well in Spain . |
| 5 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 6 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |