Example sentences of "[vb past] so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 2 | The sociological models described so far needed to be recast . |
| 3 | So you think this vitiated all the economic planning that you 'd so carefully prepared for ? |
| 4 | Although his head was throbbing almost intolerably , he 'd felt sober enough to ring for breakfast in his room , and had done his best to contemplate the ‘ Full English ’ he 'd so foolishly ordered for 7 a.m . |
| 5 | ‘ Ever since I first started making you question all the things you 'd so happily taken for granted ? ’ |
| 6 | To give me what you 'd so often described to me . ’ |
| 7 | The children had also done their share , not always wholly willingly , to help the family whose problems now seemed so closely linked with their own . |
| 8 | It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do . |
| 9 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 10 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 11 | The rise of the electricity industry created a new market for his engines , which proved so well suited to driving dynamos that by the time of his death over half the country 's electrical power was generated by them . |
| 12 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 13 | Suddenly he realized the flaw in the will Marius Steen had so hastily improvised in the South of France . |
| 14 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 15 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 16 | As representatives of the sovereign nation whose king was a captive in Talleyrand 's chateau , the patriots claimed to supplant the structure of the ancien régime that had so signally failed in the supreme test of patriotism . |
| 17 | But when Dr Neil Cochrane returned to the business of Miss Sally-Anne McAllister who had so strangely arrived in his home he was as firmly pressing of her as he was before . |
| 18 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |
| 19 | The driver of the car she had so nearly collided with . |
| 20 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 21 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 22 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 23 | The Box Office lady at the Tivoli theatre adjusted the hair she had so carefully twisted into two buns over her ears , pushed her glasses up her nose , and opened her cash-box , ready for the first night crowds . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 25 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 26 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 27 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 28 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 29 | In dealing with that lie failed to show sustained energy , or to make effective and impartial use of the authority of the state , the importance of which lie had so insistently proclaimed in May . |
| 30 | This was obviously not Silvia , Guido 's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love ! |