Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 2 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 3 | One person who has done so recently is Arthur Kulfik ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 5 | ‘ Our thanks go to everybody who has worked so hard on this project since 1988 . ’ |
| 6 | Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence . |
| 7 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 8 | For men who 've seen so much they 'd rather forget , this at least , was a day to remember |
| 9 | But now might it not be wise to wait a few days , and examine the possibilities suggested by this magnate who had appeared so providentially ? |
| 10 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 11 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 12 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 13 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 14 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 15 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 16 | The Headmaster , who had written so fulsomely , was not present . |
| 17 | She would not get in touch with this Frenchman who had written so imperiously . |
| 18 | Prop Paul Szabo , who had done so well against New Zealand in Lille when Jackart was injured , was on hand for the opening match with Alberta along with flanker Bruce Breen , who had the misfortune to break a bone in his wrist . |
| 19 | Vice-President Spiro Agnew , who had campaigned so hard for law and order , resigned in October 1973 , after revelations of extensive tax evasion on his part . |
| 20 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 21 | Meanwhile in the overcrowded , squalid base hospitals , those who had survived so far were dying like flies , their beds immediately refilled . |
| 22 | In particular , men like Paul-Henri Spaak , who had worked so hard for the EEC , were conscious of the fact that many economic interests within the Six supported the foundation of the EEC primarily because of the advantages they believed would be accruable to themselves . |
| 23 | In fact , at the death-bed there was an astonishing display of Protestant respect for the regent who had fought so hard for the French alliance and the survival of the Catholic faith . |
| 24 | The prospect of coming face to face with the man who had figured so prominently in Elise 's diary before her accidental death was just too intriguing to pass up . |
| 25 | He kept thinking of the girl in Mu Chua 's House of the Ninth Ecstasy ; the singsong girl , White Orchid , who had looked so much like Vesa . |
| 26 | Bathsheba 's young heart was full of pity for this sensitive man who had spoken so simply and honestly . |
| 27 | And it should be deployed : it would be his tribute to his father ; his memorial to the reticent man he had scarcely known but deeply loved , and who had died so courageously . |
| 28 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 29 | Four were the same burly sidekicks who had helped so willingly in the rescue of Louise Wyatt . |
| 30 | The thought made his jaw tighten and his hands curl and harden into fists that might smash the unknown male faces of those who had dared so far ! |