Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 2 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 3 | ‘ Even after all my years in the game , I 'm still surprised we lost having played so well . ’ |
| 4 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 5 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |