Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention .
2 I did so well because I was hard . ’
3 I was probably still thinking about that as I got back to Armstrong in Soho Square , which is why I reacted so slowly when the white Ford Capri screeched alongside Armstrong 's parking place and nosed into the kerb so I could n't move him .
4 I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went .
5 She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it .
6 She moped so badly after your father died . ’
7 And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ?
8 She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change .
9 We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care .
10 After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young .
11 They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night .
12 They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin .
13 Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project .
14 Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals .
15 They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting .
16 Faced by the Welsh emergency of 1283 , Canterbury province granted a triennial twentieth , and York in 1286 possibly a thirtieth , although they did so reluctantly because they were still paying off arrears of the subsidy of 1279–80 .
17 In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations .
18 ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept .
19 AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes .
20 A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing .
21 His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity .
22 He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost .
23 Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green .
24 In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District .
25 When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey .
26 He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi .
27 Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) .
28 Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’
29 In January 1881 he went so far as to recommend the involvement of zemstvo and municipal duma representatives in commissions appointed to consider reform of peasant affairs and local government .
30 Indeed he went so far as to suggest that pupils might be involved in evaluating the curriculum in the future .
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