Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 2 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 3 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 4 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 5 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 6 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 7 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 8 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 9 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 12 | Apart from the reshuffled attack the rest of the side is the same as played so effectively to deny Donegal in the league final replay . |
| 13 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 14 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 15 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 16 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 17 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 18 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 19 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 20 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 21 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 22 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 23 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 24 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 25 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |