Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 2 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 3 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 4 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 5 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 6 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 7 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 8 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 9 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 12 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 16 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 17 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |