Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
2 | ‘ I 've spent so long trying to block it all out . |
3 | This is the real point which lies at the heart of the present appeal ; in a sense , everything which I have said so far has done no more than set the stage for its consideration . |
4 | Many of the sort of examples I have cited so far have been pushed aside by theorising palaeontologists with the disparaging term " facies fossils " . |
5 | My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice . |
6 | What I have described so far relates in general to the lives of women in the peasant communities in many parts of the Indian sub-continent , but the details I have given mainly concern women in East and West Punjab . |
7 | What I have described so far applies to people direct from the Indian sub-continent . |
8 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |