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

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1 The piglet choir has come along so we can hear them
2 The Storehouse chairman feels far more at home leading the expansion of the group he has built up so assiduously .
3 Well , clearly the revival thing has moved up so that we 're about to have Eighties revivals very soon .
4 During a conversation on board his flagship Nagato during Christmas 1940 , Admiral Yamamoto remarked to his Chief-of-Staff , Vice-Admiral Shigeru Fukadome , that ‘ … an air attack on Pearl Harbor might be possible now , especially as our air training has turned out so successfully . ’
5 Everything has turned out so well .
6 The opinion polls have begun to suggest that ordinary Greeks are getting tired of the alternation of placeholders that has made up so much of recent Greek politics .
7 Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in .
8 At last British output per head is now up to the European average , largely because the latter has slowed down so much .
9 There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role .
10 Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final .
11 Although I regret the reorganization that has brought about so many redundancies , I do feel it is necessary in the light of quality control .
12 Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles .
13 Marcos was a prime beneficiary of Washington 's egregious ‘ hold-the-nose ’ policy , the brand of realpolitik which , since the Second World War , has buoyed up so many of the world 's most grotesque regimes .
14 But because labour related to cost of the total has gone up so much , er i i most people now prepared to pack would prefer to do .
15 The question courtship poses is why it exists , and why , in some species , it has taken on so extravagant a form .
16 It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football .
17 ‘ The murderous Gruncher , who has gobbled up so many thousands of us Minpins , has gone for ever !
18 In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland .
19 There 's so much we 've had to pay out so much erm you 've had to pay out so much on , on more mortgage than you expected .
20 There 's so much we 've had to pay out so much erm you 've had to pay out so much on , on more mortgage than you expected .
21 He was surprised that the memory should have come back so keenly and at such a moment .
22 Uncle Philip must have come back so late at night or early in the morning that only Aunt Margaret was still awake .
23 Yet for the growth of the later strident and vigorous anticlericalism , the self-consciousness of the laity was a prerequisite , and on a national scale it is by no means certain that this lay identity would have come about so forcefully or so quickly had parliament not been ready to hand as a vehicle in which to rally hostility and an instrument by which to further it .
24 They remembered Phoebe from Oxford days , and she could not fail to notice their thinly veiled compassion for Rachel that her brilliant daughter should have turned out so odd , so unsatisfactory .
25 could have turned out so differently could n't it ?
26 The taxation in itself , however heavy , could hardly have sparked off so violent a conflagration if conditions had not been appropriate for it .
27 The Arundel-trained colt came to the course having shown up so well on his home gallops that he held a Royal Ascot date .
28 ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’
29 And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed .
30 I would not have started up so guiltily and … the Lord works in mysterious ways .
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