Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 2 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 3 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 4 | The next few seconds seemed to move so fast that none of the witnesses to it , eagles or people , could ever quite remember the sequence of events . |
| 5 | And the men , from Corporal John Carrow who looked after the cars in the depot to which Liza was attached , upwards to the brigadiers and generals whom she drove , were all , little or much , aware of this striking-looking girl in the perfectly fitting uniform , whose expression seemed to alternate so swiftly and appealingly between gaiety and despair . |
| 6 | The train seemed to travel so quickly and when another Inter-City passed by going the other way , seemingly only inches away , I thought that here was Armageddon ! |
| 7 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 8 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 9 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 10 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 11 | Item — The most mysterious aspect of this is that there is no evidence that when the King came to the Council meeting he intended to leave but decided to do so there and then . |
| 12 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 13 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 14 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 15 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 16 | But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued . |
| 17 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 18 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 19 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 20 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 21 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 22 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 25 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 26 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 27 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 28 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 29 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 30 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |