Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 4 | Many commentators argued that it should have done so long ago . |
| 5 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 6 | Despite her anxiety she registered both the relief that Phoebe should have acted so promptly and a tiny flicker of jealousy , which she quickly quashed . |
| 7 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 8 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 9 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 10 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 11 | That Howe 's resignation should have occurred so opportunely for Heseltine — on the very eve of the one time of year that the party rules permit a leadership challenge — was extremely important . |
| 12 | And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’ |
| 13 | It 's so kind of her and she must have worked so hard … |
| 14 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 15 | Your mother had an amazing imagination — that 's where yours comes from — she could have done so much better with her life … |
| 16 | She could have done so once , but now she was too tired . |
| 17 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 18 | She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part . |
| 19 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 20 | The gamble had worked , when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong . |
| 21 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 22 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 23 | Underlying his bullishness was a feeling of incredulity that Oldfield , one of his oldest friends , should be taking such a step at all , and that Oldfield could have drifted so far away from him without Branson having read the warning signs . |
| 24 | it made us wonder how our culture could have drifted so far astray , leaving women often isolated and devalued . |
| 25 | It seemed impossible that in a few short days her life could have changed so dramatically and fundamentally , and she told Rohan so . |
| 26 | Now that she was thinking more rationally , all the old doubts came back , and she found it hard to believe that she could have behaved so rashly . |
| 27 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 28 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 30 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |