Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 2 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 3 | It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him . |
| 4 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 5 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |