Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 2 | All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 6 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 7 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 8 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 9 | I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 18 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 19 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 23 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 24 | And I wanted to do so well . |
| 25 | I just wondered what progress you 'd made so far . |
| 26 | You did n't disagree with Dad the other day , anyhow , when he remarked that since you 'd worked so hard for your qualifications it was a pity that there was n't a firm around here large enough for you to use them . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd got so bleeding sensitive , ’ she said , pulling a filthy pair of leggings on over the nappy . |
| 28 | It was a way of gaining Veronica 's confidence , Loretta thought , launching into a description of the work she 'd done so far . |
| 29 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 30 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |