Example sentences of "so [adj] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 5 | Since leaving the train at eleven o'clock that morning , so much had changed in her life that Constance felt dazed . |
| 6 | The rest would have understood the warning , and the plot , whatever its form , would have fizzled out , as so many had done over the years . |
| 7 | welcomed everyone and said it was gratifying that so many had made the effort to be present and she extended a special welcome to the representatives from Norfolk , North West and the West country . |
| 8 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 9 | And as for Tommy 's death , what proof had he that one stray bullet among so many had come from the pistol of Captain Trentham ? |
| 10 | The numbers had dwindled , and she wondered why so many had left already . |
| 11 | Nothing half so terrible had happened to her ; no one she loved had been killed or even hurt . |
| 12 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |