Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Thomson , who again again failed to break his run of poor form in this championship , bemoaned : ‘ I was very nervous and do n't think I 've ever played so badly .
2 ‘ I do n't think I 've ever worked so hard . ’
3 I 've never felt so well protected .
4 ‘ I 've never worked so hard in my life , ’ she told Anne and Julia when she called to see them .
5 One reason why we are determined not to have a Labour Government is that they might tip the balance in the Community towards a fortress Europe and against the forces of free trade which we have successfully orchestrated so far .
6 ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’
7 ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’
8 ( This displays the ruler line even if you have not done so already . )
9 TYPE in the text of Task 17 now if you have not done so already .
10 If you do like catfish and have not done so already then I recommend that you join the Catfish Association of Great Britain , and share this area of the hobby with others who do .
11 Now , Stuart , as you will discover if you have not done so already , believes that the principal raison d'être of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath .
12 We will keep you informed of developments , but if you wish to be among the first to know you should sign on to our mailing list if you have not done so already .
13 ‘ I have not forgotten my promise to help you find a place , although I have not done so yet . ’
14 To begin to remedy this emotional block , start to notice when you are looking for praise or recognition , and in doing so , start talking about or bringing to someone else 's notice something you have not done so well .
15 They have not done so easily .
16 If we have not done so before , now is the time to examine religious views and the firm hope of eternal life which is an integral part of the Christian faith and teaching .
17 At present the authorities have not gone so far as this .
18 The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it .
19 There are fewer runners now : whether the halfpence have not flowed so freely from the pockets of the tourists , or the youthful population has decreased , I can not tell .
20 There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form .
21 One aspect we have not mentioned so far is the matter of model trim .
22 We have not stressed so frequently the importance of liaison with our own colleagues , arguing ( with sometimes dubious validity ) that because it ‘ happens all the time ’ it does not need to be explicitly provided .
23 Changes have occurred but they have generally done so gradually over much longer intervals than changes of government — in part as a result of changes in official thinking , in larger part through alterations in the complex relationships between economic ideas , political ideology and the force of economic circumstance .
24 Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour .
25 But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics .
26 It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level .
27 No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’
28 But I have n't said so obviously .
29 I thought we would be lower mid-table in a comparatively comfortable position , but when you get 15 little things and you lump them together you get a better idea why we have n't done so well .
30 The nomes who have n't done so well since the Drive .
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