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

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1 I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path .
2 He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her .
3 No wonder I 'd seen so little of her .
4 But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview .
5 I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps .
6 All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me .
7 I had no idea I 'd invited so many people .
8 ‘ I did n't realize I 'd got so cold . ’
9 I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean .
10 There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception .
11 ‘ I did n't know what to believe , I 'd got so worked up … ’
12 Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that .
13 He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through .
14 " I 'd identified so much with the Africans .
15 Nick could n't understand it , he said he could n't understand why I 'd changed so much .
16 At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often .
17 I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds .
18 Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning .
19 I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre .
20 Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay .
21 ‘ But should I have done so ?
22 And would I have got so much just from a voice ?
23 I had made so many enemies .
24 You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’
25 I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance .
26 I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list .
27 I had lost so many selves before .
28 I had wanted so much for these two girls , and now I had nothing .
29 I had wanted so much to make friends at Lowood , to be good , to deserve praise .
30 Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this .
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