Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first edition I felt I owed a debt of gratitude to my old teacher , Professor Geoffrey Lampe , who has since died so courageously of cancer , to close friends , the Revd. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No challenger to a President in office has ever scored so heavily . |
| 4 | His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm , his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit . |
| 5 | Britain had become the most urbanized nation in the world by the late nineteenth century , and has probably remained so ever since . |
| 6 | There are also hints of the four-generation families which longer life has now made so much more common , when — though still very rarely indeed — a great-grandparent is recalled . |
| 7 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 8 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 9 | The Plym has never fished so well and enthusiasts report catches of up to eight fish per session with a high percentage of 2 lb plus specimens . |
| 10 | Then , at , the news that we 'd all worked so hard for . |
| 11 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 12 | Hazily , Meredith tried to recall if they 'd always looked so intensely inviting . |
| 13 | I 'd never worked so hard at anything in my life ; nor , once I 'd started , had I wanted anything so badly . |
| 14 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 15 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 16 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 17 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 21 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 22 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 23 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 24 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 27 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 28 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 29 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 30 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |