Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised . |
| 32 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 33 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 34 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 35 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 36 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 37 | What is unexpected is the extent to which decline has extended beyond the conurbations into those adjacent districts that had previously grown so rapidly ( Spence et al . |
| 38 | He had certainly managed so far . |
| 39 | The Sakata factory was a couple of kilometres into the valley and he had never ridden so fast in all his life . |
| 40 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 41 | Winnie , dear Jesus , beneath the bed , and she had never moved so fast , would the fat sow never rise ? |
| 42 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 43 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 44 | When Thursday of that week came round , Leith was beginning to think she had never worked so hard . |