Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft . |
| 2 | Well now , you 're saying your consultants are enthusiastic about what they 've seen so far , we 're hearing a lot of doctors , G Ps , being very critical , why that ambivalence ? |
| 3 | That 's the trouble is n't it Peter , that 's so often the trouble with United as well , they 've done so well this afternoon , but such an important game against Oldham , again I 'm a great Oldham fan , I think Oldham play some delightful football . |
| 4 | Anyway , I think these young ladies deserve a round of applause for what they 've done so far . |
| 5 | Now , I agree with the point that you 've just made and I 've heard some other people say , well the teaching that they 've got so far is n't going to influence what they see in their second year . |
| 6 | They 've come so far , they were giving daily displays at Crufts recently : they spend 16 weeks learning to recognise an alarm clock . |
| 7 | Were n't Liv were n't the easy team they 've had so far , they were , was quite hard as well I think , what you should of said , yes and I 'm Peterborough UEFA cup . |
| 8 | Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far . |
| 9 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 10 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 11 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
| 12 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 13 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 14 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 15 | It was impossible to believe that they had fallen so mathematically into place by themselves . |
| 16 | It was not like some of the valleys they had seen so far , sparsely vegetated and arid . |
| 17 | Although they had quarrelled so bitterly Mrs Gotobed had still loved Mr Evans , deep down in her heart , and the message she had asked Carrie to give him would show him this plain , . |
| 18 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 19 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 20 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 21 | That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before . |
| 22 | They had breakfasted so early too . |
| 23 | The firm they had nursed so devotedly was wrecked by a series of hammer blows : |
| 24 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 25 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 26 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 27 | Because of the Swamp they had come so far south that they must now be at least on a level with the path where they had fought with the sturdy beggars although the northern ride must lie between them and it . |
| 28 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 29 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 30 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |