Example sentences of "who [verb] so [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body . |
| 2 | A very large policeman was trying to keep them back , but they were pressing closer and closer , determined to have a good look at the two people who had so nearly lost their lives . |
| 3 | He upset the Tories , who had so vigorously defended his right to the succession , by attacking the Anglican monopoly in worship and education , and then by punishing recalcitrant Anglicans in a specially erected Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes ; he enlarged his standing army , appointing a number of Catholics to prominent positions of command ; and he interfered with local franchises and borough corporations in order to try to secure the election of a Parliament which would be subservient to his wishes . |
| 4 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 5 | Just as ten minutes earlier , as he had driven back to St Aldate 's , Lewis had wondered the same about Mrs Kemp ; in particular recalling the curious fact that , for a woman who had so manifestly hated her husband , she had reacted to the news of his death with such terrible distress . |
| 6 | Here , gathered within its walls , were the enemies who had so far eluded his grasp : Count William of Angoulême and Vulgrin , Aimar of Limoges , the Viscount of Ventadour and the lord of Chabanais . |
| 7 | None of this is being said to arouse , in any way , pity for East Germany 's former Communist leaders , who have so thoroughly disappointed their people and betrayed the ideals of socialism . |