Example sentences of "so [adv] she [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long she 'd held the secrets of her past under lock and key , barely allowing even Kelly much more than a glimpse into her background . |
| 2 | She was still not completely used to the journey northwards to the small empty house , when for so long she had gone southwards to the big flat near Westminster Cathedral , where her mother had waited , eager to hear every detail of her day . |
| 3 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 4 | So probably she had spotted him . |
| 5 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 6 | She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place . |
| 7 | So far she had felt very little because she had been well prepared , but she did not have the necessary audacity to simply whisk the cloth away . |
| 8 | So far she had gained the distinct impression that being angry and obnoxious with her suited him just fine — he positively revelled in deriding her at every opportunity . |
| 9 | So far she had done nothing irrevocable . |
| 10 | His wife , more canny than she seemed , had already witnessed huge losses over a scheme to promote detachable shirt cuffs , and so far she had managed to sit on the remaining money . |
| 11 | Her part of the bargain was to keep that body in good working order , not to abuse it or damage it , and so far she had managed to do that pretty well . |
| 12 | So far she had got no information and she had come dangerously near to paying the price . |
| 13 | But so far she had refused to take any of them seriously — sensible Caroline . |
| 14 | So far she had avoided the interior of Emma Watt 's flat . |
| 15 | She gave a cool glance in return , cautiously pleased that so far she had betrayed nothing of her reaction at standing so close to him . |
| 16 | So far she 'd found plenty of work , but the television world was a notoriously fickle one , with an extremely efficient grapevine . |