Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 2 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 3 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 4 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 5 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 6 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 7 | When , and if , I got to the 2ème Régiment Étranger des Parachutistes I hoped that my efforts during basic training would pay off , and that I could get involved , if not in a war , then in something physically and militarily more adventurous than anything I had done so far . |
| 8 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 9 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 11 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 12 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 13 | He , too , was shocked to hear that my great expectations came from the prisoner I had helped so long ago , and when I introduced him to our guest , Herbert could hardly hide his dislike . |
| 14 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |