Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did so well because I was hard . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 8 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 9 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |
| 10 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
| 11 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 12 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 13 | After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young . |
| 14 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 15 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 16 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 17 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 18 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 19 | Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 . |
| 20 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 21 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 22 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 23 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
| 24 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 25 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 26 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 27 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 28 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 29 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |
| 30 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |