Example sentences of "had [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 2 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 3 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 4 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 5 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 6 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 7 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 8 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 9 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 10 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 11 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 12 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 13 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 14 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 15 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 16 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 17 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 18 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 19 | As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " . |
| 20 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 21 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 22 | Bathsheba 's young heart was full of pity for this sensitive man who had spoken so simply and honestly . |
| 23 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 24 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 25 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 26 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 27 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 28 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |
| 29 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 30 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |