Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 2 | Excitement mounted ; the hills we got to know so well ; on the left Heathmynd , then Rhadley and Linley Hill ; and then on the right the dramatic landmark of the Beech Avenue curling over the top of Norbury . |
| 3 | Some like Seronatus and Victorius moved to do so even before 476 . |
| 4 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 5 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 6 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |
| 7 | She climbed into bed , leaning back against the pillows he 'd stacked so expertly . |
| 8 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |
| 9 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 10 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 11 | Unusually tall , even for the Plaza troupe which was her line , her excellent dancing seemed to come so naturally to her , that the other Girls were full of praise for her work . |
| 12 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 13 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 14 | I just wondered what progress you 'd made so far . |
| 15 | He had drawn the cross he 'd seen so briefly , and coloured the stones red and the setting yellow . |
| 16 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 17 | Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well . |
| 18 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 19 | Alan Strachan seemed genuinely pleased with the work we 'd done so far . |
| 20 | It was a way of gaining Veronica 's confidence , Loretta thought , launching into a description of the work she 'd done so far . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd got so bleeding sensitive , ’ she said , pulling a filthy pair of leggings on over the nappy . |
| 23 | What struck me was how they all seemed to look so very much alike and yet , at the same time , so totally different . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd cared so much about concealing his past when he was alive , it seemed unfair to reveal it after he was dead , ’ Ashley said ruefully . |
| 26 | I liked him as soon as I met him and came to do so even more over the ensuing months . |
| 27 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 28 | Was this the Milton Humberside he 'd known so long ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |