Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland .
2 This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic .
3 Marsha Rowe has edited an anthology of short stories which she has entitled So Very English ( Serpent 's Tail , pbk £7.99 ) .
4 She has worked so hard all her life .
5 ENZA New Zealand , jointly skippered by Robin Knox-Johnston and Peter Blake , sailed 474 miles in one 24-hour burst — the highest daily mileage she has managed so far — and has now covered 8,300 miles in the first 24 days , to take 150 miles out of the lead of French challenger Commodore Explorer .
6 It was a way of gaining Veronica 's confidence , Loretta thought , launching into a description of the work she 'd done so far .
7 No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance .
8 She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success .
9 She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor .
10 It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given .
11 Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ?
12 However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ?
13 How could she have responded so instantly ?
14 God 's blood , why did she have to look so damned vulnerable ?
15 ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’
16 How could she have melted so completely under his kiss ?
17 So she forbore to do so altogether , even to Cedric , and as she lay in her bed that day , her arm now beginning to give her some considerable pain , she would willingly ( she knew ) have cracked two of her ribs rather than chipped a couple of her teeth .
18 She showed her beautiful teeth again — perhaps one of the reasons why she liked to smile so readily .
19 He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt .
20 She had grown so still now she was barely breathing .
21 And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ?
22 This was a different Fernando from the one she had loved so passionately before .
23 Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver .
24 ( For he would never leave her ) If she found a place of her own , with other comrades of course — why , she had moved so often , it was nothing , she could do it easily .
25 Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past .
26 It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her .
27 The feelings she had displayed so publicly were anything but fake .
28 But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before .
29 Dana could be right — she did find it difficult to get friendly with any of the men she had met so far , but that did n't mean she never would .
30 Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case .
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