Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] 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 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 3 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |
| 4 | She climbed into bed , leaning back against the pillows he 'd stacked so expertly . |
| 5 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 6 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 7 | I just wondered what progress you 'd made so far . |
| 8 | He had drawn the cross he 'd seen so briefly , and coloured the stones red and the setting yellow . |
| 9 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 10 | Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well . |
| 11 | He 'd done so once , and seen them writhing in silent laughter . |
| 12 | Alan Strachan seemed genuinely pleased with the work we 'd done so far . |
| 13 | It was a way of gaining Veronica 's confidence , Loretta thought , launching into a description of the work she 'd done so far . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd got so bleeding sensitive , ’ she said , pulling a filthy pair of leggings on over the nappy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Was this the Milton Humberside he 'd known so long ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 21 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 22 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 23 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 24 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 25 | he 'd tried so bloody hard . |
| 26 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You did n't disagree with Dad the other day , anyhow , when he remarked that since you 'd worked so hard for your qualifications it was a pity that there was n't a firm around here large enough for you to use them . |
| 29 | He riffled through the statements he 'd taken so far . |
| 30 | I 'd no idea we 'd taken so long . ’ |