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

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1 There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly .
2 He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate !
3 Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long .
4 Only one bastion of prime importance to the city 's defence had been lost so far : Douaumont .
5 How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her .
6 Nevertheless , Dr Michel Halbouty , chairman of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources , told the meeting that the findings indicated that as much oil and gas remained to be found in the Pacific as had been discovered so far worldwide .
7 He was one-eyed with a great purple birthmark across his face ; he must be the same fellow who had been closeted so secretly with Irvine at the Sea Barque in Leicester .
8 A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " .
9 Rockets were still falling on London , but Paris had been liberated so surely , surely , it was nearly all over ?
10 This was not the first false alarm designed to draw the police into an ambush , although no one had been ambushed so far .
11 His face had been battered so badly , his father did n't know it was his own son until he squeezed his hand and muttered ’ Dad . ’
12 Naomi Headleand , who had been killed so tragically , so tragically young , when driving herself quietly and soberly home from Glyndebourne one night .
13 The MPs said the bank had to accept responsibility for its failure as BCCI 's supervisor , which had been demonstrated so clearly in the report by Sir Thomas Bingham , a High Court judge .
14 Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’
15 He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far .
16 ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . )
17 He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability .
18 Documentary proof of 147 deaths had been found so far .
19 This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth .
20 According to the GFCCG , only $400 million of this amount had been disbursed so far [ see also p. 38010 ] .
21 Cossiga 's term of office was also due to expire shortly after the general election , the first time since 1948 that parliamentary and presidential elections had been held so closely together .
22 The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it .
23 It was one of the reasons she had been promoted so fast .
24 She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed .
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