Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 2 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 3 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 4 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 5 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 6 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 7 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 8 | Oh , there are all manner of things I need , it is so long since I went shopping . |
| 9 | It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once . |
| 10 | But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward . |
| 11 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
| 12 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 13 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 14 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 15 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 16 | It was a pursuit which we could only continue , of course , so long as we managed to sell our films to commercial television simply on the strength of their entertainment value . |
| 17 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
| 18 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 19 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 20 | ‘ So long as he promised to give the heroine more character and personality , that is . |
| 21 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 22 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 23 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 24 | So so when he 'd done it he said well two hundred and fifty quid I heard him and he said but I suppose you know the of it oh I do n't know and he said why did n't you do it ? |
| 25 | There were things to be said and asked , things they both needed to understand , but she was n't inclined to risk such a potentially traumatic discussion now , so shortly before she had to go out and be both professional and sociable . |
| 26 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 27 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 28 | Would they dare risk alienating public opinion so soon after they had regained it ? |
| 29 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 30 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |