Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1	Alan Strachan seemed genuinely pleased with the work we 'd done so far .
2	I 'd no idea we 'd taken so long . ’
3	We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly .
4	This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far .
5	We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot .
6	But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room .
7	It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see .
8	The harbour was crammed with the great prahus which we had come so far for , but our attempts to communicate with the captains and crewmen were discouraging .
9	We had come so far to find this .
10	The building site manager at the time told the Daily Mirror : ‘ I had a meeting with Mellor 's wife over cups of coffee at the start of each week to discuss any problems and let her know how much we had spent so far .
11	In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) .
12	We had tried so hard , we had to succeed .

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