Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 2 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 3 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 4 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |
| 5 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 6 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 7 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 8 | I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him . |
| 9 | ‘ I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went . |
| 10 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 11 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 12 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 13 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 14 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 15 | That had been the start of their relationship , which had so totally and dramatically changed her life . |
| 16 | In spite of herself she stirred so sharply that he felt her astonishment recoil upon his own flesh and set him trembling . |
| 17 | Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her . |
| 18 | She sighed so heavily that her whole ribcage moved . |
| 19 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 20 | They begged Franca to come too , and she declined so tactfully that they could all , without awkwardness , smile over the plan and even discuss it . |
| 21 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she breathed so softly that she wondered if he had heard . |
| 22 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 23 | ‘ And now she adores another — that 's life ! ’ she clipped so tightly that it was quite plain she was hurt . |
| 24 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 25 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |
| 26 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 27 | The family moved to the middle of the country , a contrast to the northern industrial cities she knew so well and ‘ definitely warmer ’ than the West of Sheffield . |
| 28 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 29 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |
| 30 | But the reason she fell so easily and so heavily would seem to be that she was light-headed from a mixture of drink and pills . |