Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The points made , the order of delivery and even some of the phrases used so closely resemble Scott 's first letter to Palmerston that it seems likely that Elcho had been briefed by Scott . |
| 2 | The dawn — when finally it came up — did so neither like thunder , nor rosy-fingered . |
| 3 | The theoretical models discussed so far provide insights into the distributional impact of policy measures ; but for practical implementation the analytical skeleton needs to be clothed with empirical evidence on the actual distribution of endowments and on individual behaviour . |
| 4 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 5 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 6 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 7 | For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature , as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon . |
| 8 | Where had they all gone , those extraordinary skinny left-wing men , who had bullied their girl-friends into the Women 's Movement and been surprised when the hand with which they had so kindly offered freedom had been bitten so damn hard ? |
| 9 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 10 | My argument was that , as Michael Heseltine had so boldly listed Battersea Power Station in 1980 , it was illogical not to protect a much finer and more complete industrial work by the same architect . |
| 11 | Agassiz expressed his sadness that Darwin 's theory had so quickly won acclaim , while Darwin could find in Agassiz 's idealism nothing but ‘ empty sounds . ’ |
| 12 | He had been forced to make the move ‘ from the safe haven of the monastery to the tumultuous and wreck-strewn storms of the world ’ , against which he had so often cautioned others ; and there was no release in sight . |
| 13 | In this stillness she recalled how once she had so much loved sleep , half sleep , lying with Jack beside her , relaxing into sleep . |
| 14 | The Jordanian Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , Mudar Badran , announced on Feb. 24 that the confrontation in the Gulf had so far cost Jordan some US$8,000 million , or double the value of the country 's domestic economic output . |
| 15 | ( The Guardian of Jan. 8 claimed that United States emissaries from the IMF had actually threatened that , unless Balcerowicz remained in place , Western creditors who had so far lent Poland around US$13,000 million would end their support . ) |
| 16 | There were no houses in sight ; the sea on one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers . |
| 17 | On March 12 Mandela , continuing a foreign tour which had so far included Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as Zambia , travelled to Sweden , whose government had shown the greatest support for the ANC outside Africa . |
| 18 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |