Example sentences of "[pron] had so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 2 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 3 | What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten ? |
| 4 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 5 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 6 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 7 | I had heard stories , including horrendous tales of harassment by the police from other people in the black community but my family and I had so far escaped such treatment . |
| 8 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 9 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 10 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 11 | Needless to say , this new world always bore an uncanny resemblance to the one I had so recently abandoned . |
| 12 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 13 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 14 | I had so much invested in my identity as a young success that when it all evaporated I was left with a part of myself I did n't know or understand or like . |
| 15 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 16 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 17 | She was thankful for that , because it gave her time to think carefully about the extraordinary situation which had so unexpectedly arisen . |
| 18 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 19 | For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature , as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon . |
| 20 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 21 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 22 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 23 | Although this event would signify the end not merely of another king in the nation , but of a dynasty which had so far extended unbroken into prehistory , no one had any idea just when it would take place . |
| 24 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 25 | On March 12 Mandela , continuing a foreign tour which had so far included Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as Zambia , travelled to Sweden , whose government had shown the greatest support for the ANC outside Africa . |
| 26 | A review of this policy , however , had urged " a more cautious attitude " towards the mainland , which had so far failed to respond to Taiwan 's initiatives on government-to-government contacts [ see p. 37455 ] . |
| 27 | Delegates agreed to open Eureka 's project database to east European companies and research institutes , although funding would , as in other countries , have to come from their own resources or from the governments ( which had so far provided less than 30 per cent of funding ) . |
| 28 | When the supply of heavy furniture , and of the more ponderous artistic objects , had been exhausted , there began the rape of " the possessions " which had so long encumbered the Residency and the banqueting hall . |
| 29 | I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes . |
| 30 | Project engineer Dennis Frost and his wife , Joan , launched the ambitious fund-raising effort to buy a Pegasus air bed , a specialised type which had so much helped their friend , Dottie Forrester , who was a patient at the home . |