Example sentences of "[verb] so hard [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all tried so hard not to look too closely at her . |
| 2 | It crushed and lifted her breasts to create the deep fleshy cleavage he always tried so hard not to stare into . |
| 3 | She had tried so hard not to like him as they shared a drink at the Crush Bar , especially after Daphne 's warning about his reputation . |
| 4 | Trying so hard not to weep at the demise of the old Post Office now replaced by a kit construction for other uses , I walked robotically to the cathedral like all the other tourists . |
| 5 | Yet many of them come to terms with it magnificently , trying so hard not to add their pain to that of their children , in a situation that sometimes neither of them can alter . |
| 6 | I felt like shit and I was trying so hard not to think of Lewis and Verity that I could n't think about anything else , but the day was fabulous ; clear and cold , the sky crystal blue and reflecting in the waters of hill-cupped lochans and the glinting length of Loch Add . |