Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence . |
| 2 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 3 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 4 | Janie 's mother , Angela Darling , clearly distraught , took time out to praise the police who 'd worked so hard on the investigation . |
| 5 | This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter . |
| 6 | But now might it not be wise to wait a few days , and examine the possibilities suggested by this magnate who had appeared so providentially ? |
| 7 | And when it was so deep I could n't see the bottom , Old Bolton 's prize sow , you know the one who had borne so many litters , there was no space atween her belly and the ground . |
| 8 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 9 | Rohmer , who had become so silent , looked at the storm-driven snow and the living electricity which buffeted the window nearest to him . |
| 10 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 11 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 12 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 13 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 14 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 15 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 16 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 17 | Arthur , who had followed so much of Jack 's inner journey , was the perfect companion during those strange days . |
| 18 | The two Governors after Paullinus were diplomats and administrators and not like the military men who had caused so much havoc . |
| 19 | Lord Montague , the master of Cowdray and Battle , succeeded Sir Thomas Browne , his father , who had profited so much from the dissolution . |
| 20 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 21 | There was little scope left for the condottiere , no possibility of the rise of a new crop of Wallensteins or Mansfelds , the warlords and military entrepreneurs who had played so great a part in the struggles of the 1620s and 1630s . |
| 22 | He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’ |
| 23 | He who had begun so terrible an undertaking , how can we be sure he did not , after all , stay and finish it ? ’ |
| 24 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 25 | She would not get in touch with this Frenchman who had written so imperiously . |
| 26 | The Headmaster , who had written so fulsomely , was not present . |
| 27 | Mother , she who had seen so much , wanted one last triumph ; one final casting coup . |
| 28 | The Attorney-General replied that the magistrate could stand before the crowd and shout for the complainants to come forward and then interview the men who had done so . |
| 29 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Prop Paul Szabo , who had done so well against New Zealand in Lille when Jackart was injured , was on hand for the opening match with Alberta along with flanker Bruce Breen , who had the misfortune to break a bone in his wrist . |