Example sentences of "[pers pn] have so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 2 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 3 | What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten ? |
| 4 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 5 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 6 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 7 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 8 | I had heard stories , including horrendous tales of harassment by the police from other people in the black community but my family and I had so far escaped such treatment . |
| 9 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 10 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 11 | Needless to say , this new world always bore an uncanny resemblance to the one I had so recently abandoned . |
| 12 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 13 | I suppose I was remembering all those tests I had so long ago , all those nasty little operations — ’ Irene broke off , looking intently into her cup of coffee , as if it were to blame . |
| 14 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 15 | I had so much invested in my identity as a young success that when it all evaporated I was left with a part of myself I did n't know or understand or like . |
| 16 | Is n't this all , to use a term I 've so far studiously avoided , too New Age for comfort , with all its dubious connotations of exploitation , escapism and Wyndham Hill music tapes , whose utter blandness makes the most soporific MOR music seem positively hardcore ? |
| 17 | For I too have the same taint of ‘ foolishness ’ upon me as my great-uncle Fred , though I 've so far escaped the anguish of his illness . |
| 18 | So you see , although I have tried since — needs must ! — to subdue that dangerous spirit of rebellion , I have so little succeeded that — that … ’ |
| 19 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 20 | My comments are not meant to seek to prescribe to others how they should go about things , nor are they written in the belief that the ways that I have so painfully worked upon are necessarily the best , or the only ways of doing things . |
| 21 | There are continuities between the positions I have so far outlined , despite their differing ideological biases . |
| 22 | ‘ Activity' seems to be one car — all I see as I meander my way through the hills above the lonely hamlet of Núpur. beyond it is the biggest fish-drying frame I have so far seen , with overflow fish hung on a wire fence alongside . |
| 23 | For I have so far lived almost wholly the outer life which is so distressing to think of and to endure . |
| 24 | I have so far said little about variation , the third property required for evolution along with multiplication and heredity . |
| 25 | Although I have so far been concentrating on Thomist interpretations of existence , there have been equally profound examinations in Buddhist and Moslem tradition , and in the modern day by existentialist writers , some of whom are religious and some of whom are not . |
| 26 | The caddis lives inside its house , and the parasites that I have so far discussed have lived inside their hosts . |
| 27 | THE best sermon I have so far heard was on the subject of ‘ ontological anxiety ’ . |
| 28 | But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk . |
| 29 | The answer I have so far given that it is from achieving effectively and efficiently , fundamentally important aims such as developing inventiveness , initiative , adaptability , intellectual curiosity , sensitivity , confidence , and so on — general transferable skills and attitudes which will equip our students for their future lives . |
| 30 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |