Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] so " in BNC.

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1 They clutched each other and fell about , it made them laugh so much .
2 It was not the ever-present guard or the commandant 's threats that made them work so devotedly .
3 Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious .
4 No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . )
5 ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’
6 You needed me and it made me feel so good !
7 What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ?
8 Oh God , they made me feel so funny , melting , so warm inside . ’
9 The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones .
10 She was still very active and made me feel so welcome , especially when she opened the sherry bottle .
11 ‘ People made me feel so welcome that I will undoubtedly go back and live in the North-East .
12 I think the thing that erm that er , made me feel so , so utterly and profoundly miserable about that evening .
13 I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much .
14 Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill .
15 It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you .
16 I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house .
17 And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business .
18 And the second man who pursued me did so to gain a large fortune , to spend on his long-term mistress and their children , and to laugh at the silly girl and her father who gave it to him .
19 The sight of another person 's suffering and sacrifice stopped me thinking so much about my own problems .
20 I think that 's important ; just playing E and A does n't do you much good — it limited my playing so much … ’
21 Other people found his looks so engaging that it is sad to think that he was deeply conscious of noses , especially when he was worried about Jewishness .
22 For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care .
23 But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ?
24 Making the film helped him to do so , for he welcomed us , we needed his counsel , and we became friends .
25 She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week .
26 He let her go so suddenly that she almost fell .
27 Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces .
28 The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed .
29 The record industry , of course , runs on hyperbole , and Virgin Records , like any other , had a press office feeding stories to the music or national press when it profited them to do so , and doing their utmost to keep the press at bay when it did n't .
30 But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ?
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