Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft . |
| 2 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 3 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 4 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 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 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 15 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 16 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 20 | I guess I owe everything I 've achieved so far to him ! ’ |
| 21 | I 've said so before . |
| 22 | Ask for their opinion : ‘ What do you think of what I 've said so far ? ’ |
| 23 | For among the effects is one that is new , and that nothing that I 've said so far could have suggested this very exuberance , as well as the things it plays on , can make us smile or laugh . |
| 24 | I know the address by heart , I 've written so often . |
| 25 | Although I think it 's with us having the None Of A Family ourselves that I 've adjusted so well . |
| 26 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 27 | I 've waited so long for this . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've waited so long , I 've dreamed about you , about your loveliness . ’ |
| 29 | On the evidence I 've seen so far I rather doubt that . ’ |
| 30 | The only coverage I 've seen so far is erm is the news and ten of all things . |