Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made so many enemies . |
| 2 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 3 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 4 | I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list . |
| 5 | I had lost so many selves before . |
| 6 | I had wanted so much for these two girls , and now I had nothing . |
| 7 | I had wanted so much to make friends at Lowood , to be good , to deserve praise . |
| 8 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 9 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 10 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 11 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 12 | ‘ I know that 's what you imagine , and I guess I 've let you believe that because I had become so accustomed to my privacy that I did n't care for your intrusion into it , but you 're wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 14 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 15 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 16 | Enjoying what I had heard so much , I started asking questions , only to realise that the equipment in these cars alone was worth about £3500 , and installation costs were on top of that ! |
| 17 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 18 | No wonder I had felt so calm . |
| 19 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 20 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 21 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 22 | I wrote that I had done so before going to Athos . |
| 23 | When , and if , I got to the 2ème Régiment Étranger des Parachutistes I hoped that my efforts during basic training would pay off , and that I could get involved , if not in a war , then in something physically and militarily more adventurous than anything I had done so far . |
| 24 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 25 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 26 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 27 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
| 28 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Despite not strictly working shifts , I recorded abnormal temperatures , probably — though it is not proven — because I had missed so much sleep . |
| 30 | It was time to say dasvadanya ( goodbye ) to almost the entire carriage : the old man with a chest full of medals from the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis ; the young pianist visiting her estranged father in Riga and , of course , the gentle engineer with whom I had shared so much food and time . |