Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
2 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
3 | We had come so far to find this . |
4 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
5 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
6 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
7 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
8 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |