Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing found so far . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 4 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 5 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 6 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 8 | My darling , that was one of the things I found so bloody irresistible about you . |
| 9 | I moved so quietly I barely stirred the dust , yet now in the English winter I could hear a spectral echo of angry laughter and I thought it was my own . |
| 10 | They were n't designed to last this long , and I changed so quickly into these clothes , just pulled the blouse over my head … |
| 11 | The champagne I spurned so imperiously … |
| 12 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 13 | Caliban was surprised that I seemed so positively gay when he came in . |
| 14 | ‘ I believed so originally , when I first cast him , ’ he replied briskly , piercing her with his ice-blue gaze . |
| 15 | ‘ We were really expecting to win which is why I scored so well . ’ |
| 16 | That 's why I studied so hard at the Staff College . |
| 17 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 18 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 19 | Eva was in total agreement : " I admired so much our officers who lived all the time with the women in the hostels . |
| 20 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 21 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 22 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 23 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 24 | I got all that because I worked so hard at school . |
| 25 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 26 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I felt so strongly about it I had to resign , ’ said Mrs Peeke . |
| 28 | I felt so nearly in complete control . |
| 29 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 30 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |