Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] 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 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 15 | How could she have melted so completely under his kiss ? |
| 16 | She had grown so still now she was barely breathing . |
| 17 | And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ? |
| 18 | This was a different Fernando from the one she had loved so passionately before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |
| 23 | The feelings she had displayed so publicly were anything but fake . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case . |
| 27 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 28 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |
| 29 | Pricewell 's gave Anna that inch or two of dignity she had felt so sorely in need of and that she now felt she could never again surrender . |
| 30 | More than likely , Emily 's absence last night had been part of the reason that she had reacted so ridiculously to Alexander Vass . |