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 | After all , in our adult classes we strive to regain the spontaneous , whole bodied , springy movement we performed so naturally when young . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
25 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | 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 . ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Indeed he went so far as to suggest that pupils might be involved in evaluating the curriculum in the future . |
30 | Like a beggar , he went so far as to pluck at Meredith 's sleeve . |