Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 2 | Kirov appeared a little surprised that it had all gone so smoothly . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
| 4 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 5 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 6 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 7 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 8 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 9 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 10 | It had all happened so quickly . |
| 11 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 12 | He wanted her and she wanted him but … she could n't think straight … she was confused … it had all happened so quickly , too quickly . |
| 13 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 14 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 15 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 16 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 17 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 18 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 19 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 20 | Florence Ames wanted them to meet , as they had always met so regularly , sharing a common isolation never expressed . |
| 21 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 22 | It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered . |
| 23 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 24 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
| 25 | Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before . |
| 26 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |
| 27 | But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised . |
| 28 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 29 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 30 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |