Example sentences of "who [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago .
2 It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah .
3 Nebiolo , who has so far declined to enter into discussions with Jennings and his group , insisted in Stockholm that the IAAF did not have unlimited reserves to pay out prizes and said pointedly : ‘ People are believing things that are not realistic .
4 Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war .
5 The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds .
6 The Inquisitors concluded : ‘ Blessed be the Most High who has so far preserved the Male sex from so great a crime2 . ’
7 Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified .
8 It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies .
9 Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul .
10 The proportion of retired skilled workers who did so prematurely fell between these two at 79 per cent .
11 Meanwhile , at The Parks , Hampshire were bowled out for one hundred and sixty nine by Oxford University , who 've so far made twenty four without loss in reply .
12 Of the 29 other people who 've so far attended the course , only one has broken that oath .
13 He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body .
14 Unaccustomed to such tenderness from this man who had so rarely shown her anything but contempt and passion , Maria found herself beginning to tremble , while a hot , smarting sensation afflicted her eyes and emotion tightened her throat .
15 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 .
16 A very large policeman was trying to keep them back , but they were pressing closer and closer , determined to have a good look at the two people who had so nearly lost their lives .
17 It was a delicate moment for Franco , who had so closely linked the legitimacy of his power to his presentation of himself as the defender of the Catholic faith .
18 He upset the Tories , who had so vigorously defended his right to the succession , by attacking the Anglican monopoly in worship and education , and then by punishing recalcitrant Anglicans in a specially erected Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes ; he enlarged his standing army , appointing a number of Catholics to prominent positions of command ; and he interfered with local franchises and borough corporations in order to try to secure the election of a Parliament which would be subservient to his wishes .
19 What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King .
20 Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother .
21 Charles was equally determined to confront the men who had so recently betrayed him .
22 Just as ten minutes earlier , as he had driven back to St Aldate 's , Lewis had wondered the same about Mrs Kemp ; in particular recalling the curious fact that , for a woman who had so manifestly hated her husband , she had reacted to the news of his death with such terrible distress .
23 I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death .
24 He moved slowly round the perimeter staring at the seven disciples who had so far survived the ungodly war .
25 ( The Guardian of Jan. 8 claimed that United States emissaries from the IMF had actually threatened that , unless Balcerowicz remained in place , Western creditors who had so far lent Poland around US$13,000 million would end their support . )
26 Richard , who had so far remained silent , was bitterly disappointed at being unable to send the message to their mother .
27 Here , gathered within its walls , were the enemies who had so far eluded his grasp : Count William of Angoulême and Vulgrin , Aimar of Limoges , the Viscount of Ventadour and the lord of Chabanais .
28 She did not communicate this reflection to Miss Logan , who had so far proved dismally unreceptive to the transcendental .
29 The silhouette , instantly recognisable by its wide hips and shaggy curls , was David Murray , an older boy in the House who had so far taken little notice of the latest royal presence in the school .
30 Furthermore , the high-risk children who developed the disorder could be distinguished from high-risk children who had so far shown no signs of developing the condition by the seriousness of the schizophrenic illness suffered by their mothers ( as judged by the age at which their symptoms had begun ) .
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