Example sentences of "had [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 33 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 34 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 35 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 36 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 37 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 38 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 39 | Four years before his death , Chief Joseph had expressed the lifelong wish for which he had fought so persistently and waited so patiently : |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 42 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 43 | Even though she had learned so recently that this was not the authentic voice of her mother , the intellectual knowledge had changed nothing , nothing , and perhaps it never did . |
| 44 | The evening had started so well and ended so badly . |
| 45 | The time had passed so quickly that she had n't realised how late it was , or that the daylight had faded to dusk . |
| 46 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 47 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 48 | Their last meeting had ended so unpleasantly that it was difficult to change course suddenly . |
| 49 | And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ? |
| 50 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 51 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |