Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room . |
| 2 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 3 | He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her . |
| 4 | No wonder I 'd seen so little of her . |
| 5 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 6 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 7 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 8 | I had no idea I 'd invited so many people . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't realize I 'd got so cold . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean . |
| 11 | There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know what to believe , I 'd got so worked up … ’ |
| 13 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through . |
| 15 | " I 'd identified so much with the Africans . |
| 16 | Nick could n't understand it , he said he could n't understand why I 'd changed so much . |
| 17 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 18 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 21 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 22 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 23 | I was more able to forgive her for past hurts because , as Nancy Friday says , I needed to do so . |
| 24 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But if I chose to do so , what then , Miss Ruth Appleby ? ’ |
| 26 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 27 | I wish I did think so , but I do n't . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I did say so , yes . ’ |
| 29 | I had made so many enemies . |
| 30 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |