Example sentences of "all [vb pp] so " in BNC.

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1 One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms .
2 Even the validity of many of the ‘ I 've been here before ’ experiences is rather doubtful as , with the growth of television and cinema , we have all seen so many places which we may later come to visit .
3 It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign .
4 Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly .
5 It had all happened so quickly .
6 I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly .
7 It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it .
8 It had all happened so quickly .
9 I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned .
13 But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’
14 In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly .
15 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 .
16 Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for .
17 ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’
18 He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism .
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