Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 2 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 3 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 4 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 5 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 6 | When , and if , I got to the 2ème Régiment Étranger des Parachutistes I hoped that my efforts during basic training would pay off , and that I could get involved , if not in a war , then in something physically and militarily more adventurous than anything I had done so far . |
| 7 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 8 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 10 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 11 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 12 | He , too , was shocked to hear that my great expectations came from the prisoner I had helped so long ago , and when I introduced him to our guest , Herbert could hardly hide his dislike . |
| 13 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps someone had done so already . |
| 15 | By working from this new standpoint , Schleiermacher aimed to bypass the antitheses which had emerged so sharply in earlier generations between reason and revelation , natural religion and received authority , the natural and the supernatural , and to offer a fresh synthesis in which both the authentic and distinctive character of religion and the special nature of the Christian faith would be preserved . |
| 16 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 17 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 18 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 19 | In autumn 1941 the German advance into Russia , which had begun so spectacularly , ground to halt on the approach to Moscow , and a disastrous retreat in the icy wastes of the Russian winter could only be staved off with difficulty and at high human cost , leaving an ill-equipped army to endure the arctic conditions . |
| 20 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 21 | Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women , which had seemed so mysteriously random at first . |
| 22 | Suddenly the wedding day , which had seemed so far away , was almost upon them . |
| 23 | He singled out for special criticism two specific objectives which had figured so prominently in the application of Keynesian ideas : ( a ) the notion that the proper focus of attention for monetary policy was the attainment of targets for the rate of interest as opposed to targets for the supply of money ; ( b ) that demand management policies could be adjusted in such a way as to achieve a target combination of inflation and unemployment which was sustainable indefinitely . |
| 24 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 25 | They were England 's only changes from the side which had won so handsomely at Christchurch and Auckland . |
| 26 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 27 | She had grown so still now she was barely breathing . |
| 28 | And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ? |
| 29 | This was a different Fernando from the one she had loved so passionately before . |
| 30 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |