Example sentences of "so [adj] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So sorry to have disturbed you . |
| 2 | I 'm so sorry to have troubled you . |
| 3 | She will be so sorry to have missed you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'm so sorry to have kept you waiting . |
| 6 | " I 'm so sorry to have kept you waiting , gentlemen , " he said , " but I had an important telephone call from Geneva highly profitable call , I might add . " |
| 7 | ‘ So sorry to have kept you , ’ he said urbanely . |
| 8 | The pity is that so little has changed since then . |
| 9 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 11 | On the literary side , in the course of the century or so that has passed since the Symbolist movement in France , both poetry and , to a lesser extent , literary prose have been characterized by a degree of linguistic innovation unknown in most earlier periods . |
| 12 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 13 | The cost of keeping the CFA franc pegged so high has become more acute since non-CFA neighbours , Nigeria and Ghana , devalued their own currencies , making their exports more competitive . |
| 14 | Now it 's not that simple because the moo the earth is spinning round the sun in space so this has got ta be moving round this way . |
| 15 | However , the political problems of abolishing it outright would be huge and so some have advocated phasing it out over a period of time . |
| 16 | With Britain 's long history of civic integration of all but the most marginal social classes ( or at least their male members ) , there was — so some have claimed — less of the cultural marginality affecting significant social groups from which fascism could draw strength ; by extension , there was supposedly more of a commitment to the rules of the ‘ democratic game ’ . |
| 17 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 18 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 19 | She knew she was being ridiculous , but so much had happened back there in that elegant house , so many unexplained emotions had swung through her mind in such a short space of time , and she felt so wound up , so confused by it all . |
| 20 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 21 | Since leaving the train at eleven o'clock that morning , so much had changed in her life that Constance felt dazed . |
| 22 | but you wanted so much to have seen it |
| 23 | They 're offering a gift , you know … the fact that each one is a piece of work , so much has gone into it that it 's something very special , and I understand that it 's very nerve-wracking for them to offer it , to perform it … |
| 24 | That so much has survived , despite Lanfranc 's hostility , is due first to the tenacity of the surviving monks , and then to the encouragement given to them by Anselm . |
| 25 | ‘ Mediocrity seeks to endure by every means , ’ he said of these lions , and in a country where so much has disappeared the lions remain , unferocious , glum , like doped circus animals . |
| 26 | So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development . |
| 27 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 28 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 29 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 30 | So much has happened since then . ’ |