Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 2 | He 'd always said so . |
| 3 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 4 | He 'd always got so many acts going . ’ |
| 5 | Hazily , Meredith tried to recall if they 'd always looked so intensely inviting . |
| 6 | She 'd always seemed so self-contained , so self-sufficient . |
| 7 | I do n't think I 'd ever felt so taxed in my career . |
| 8 | Perhaps he 'd even hoped so , poor chap . |
| 9 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 10 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 11 | I 'd never seen so many shots go in so many directions all at the one time . |
| 12 | I 'd never seen so many barrows . |
| 13 | She 'd never felt so lost ; there was nothing to hold on to in a world so alien . |
| 14 | She 'd never felt so weak , so helpless . |
| 15 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 16 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 17 | She 'd never ridden so big a horse as Sultan . |
| 18 | I 'd never worked so hard at anything in my life ; nor , once I 'd started , had I wanted anything so badly . |
| 19 | With nearly thirty years in the force Wycliffe had rarely felt so shamed by others . |
| 20 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 21 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 22 | The activity on the corn had somewhat died so taking advantage of the quiet spell I dozed off ( well , it had been a tiring drive ) . |
| 23 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 24 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 25 | It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign . |
| 26 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 27 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 28 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 29 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 30 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |