Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 32 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 33 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 34 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 35 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 36 | sort of everything we 've had so far 's been pretty general . |
| 37 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 38 | The Physic Garden had become so well stocked with rarities as to rival any other garden in Europe . |
| 39 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 40 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 41 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 42 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 43 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've spent so long trying to block it all out . |
| 45 | But as you 've spent so long thinking it over , I suspect that , deep down , you 've decided it is n't really worth the risk . |
| 46 | Her pity for the man she had hurt so deeply made her behave more kindly towards him than was perhaps sensible . |
| 47 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 48 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 49 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 50 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 51 | She had left so much undone . |
| 52 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 53 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 54 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 55 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 56 | The sticky price models we have considered so far tend merely to ‘ tack on ’ the assumption of sticky prices to the sort of model developed in chapter 4 . |
| 57 | All the semantic tallies we have considered so far have been what might be termed pure tallies , in that they have no perceptible semantic connection with any other elements in the language . |
| 58 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 59 | This is the real point which lies at the heart of the present appeal ; in a sense , everything which I have said so far has done no more than set the stage for its consideration . |
| 60 | When you have done so please sign it and return it to me immediately in the pre-paid envelope provided . |