Example sentences of "had so [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 2 | Suddenly he realized the flaw in the will Marius Steen had so hastily improvised in the South of France . |
| 3 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 4 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 5 | As representatives of the sovereign nation whose king was a captive in Talleyrand 's chateau , the patriots claimed to supplant the structure of the ancien régime that had so signally failed in the supreme test of patriotism . |
| 6 | But when Dr Neil Cochrane returned to the business of Miss Sally-Anne McAllister who had so strangely arrived in his home he was as firmly pressing of her as he was before . |
| 7 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |
| 8 | The driver of the car she had so nearly collided with . |
| 9 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 10 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 11 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 12 | The Box Office lady at the Tivoli theatre adjusted the hair she had so carefully twisted into two buns over her ears , pushed her glasses up her nose , and opened her cash-box , ready for the first night crowds . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 14 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 15 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 16 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 17 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 18 | In dealing with that lie failed to show sustained energy , or to make effective and impartial use of the authority of the state , the importance of which lie had so insistently proclaimed in May . |
| 19 | This was obviously not Silvia , Guido 's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love ! |
| 20 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 21 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 22 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
| 23 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 24 | Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me . |
| 25 | And for the first time since he had so suddenly reappeared in her life Laura saw her husband 's shoulders slump , almost as if he was bearing the weight of his own brother 's horrific injuries . |
| 26 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 27 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 28 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 29 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 30 | Miss D'Arcy was with Mrs Moore in the parlour in which he had so recently talked with the Colonel . |