Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 2 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 3 | Hazily , Meredith tried to recall if they 'd always looked so intensely inviting . |
| 4 | I 'd never worked so hard at anything in my life ; nor , once I 'd started , had I wanted anything so badly . |
| 5 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 6 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 8 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 9 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 10 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 11 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 12 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 13 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 14 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 15 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 16 | He wanted her and she wanted him but … she could n't think straight … she was confused … it had all happened so quickly , too quickly . |
| 17 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 18 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 19 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 20 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 21 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 22 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 23 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 24 | Florence Ames wanted them to meet , as they had always met so regularly , sharing a common isolation never expressed . |
| 25 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 26 | It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered . |
| 27 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 28 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
| 29 | Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before . |
| 30 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |