Example sentences of "so [adj] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients are so grateful to get treated they do not complain or get taken seriously . |
| 2 | It was a typical loner 's situation — the depressive who , though wanting to be alone , worried about having no one around and was so grateful to feel wanted . |
| 3 | ‘ So sorry to have disturbed you . |
| 4 | I 'm so sorry to have troubled you . |
| 5 | She will be so sorry to have missed you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 7 | I 'm so sorry to have kept you waiting . |
| 8 | " 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 . " |
| 9 | ‘ So sorry to have kept you , ’ he said urbanely . |
| 10 | ‘ But I had to go : it would have been so wet to have said no . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We were so relieved to have got away and to somewhere nice . |
| 13 | ‘ Your mother , ’ she said to Anna , ‘ thinks you are so clever to have found us . ’ |
| 14 | She was so clever to have thought of it . |
| 15 | But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors . |
| 16 | But it was not so easy to get rid of the cosmological constant . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's so easy to get frustrated on this course , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Cos he 's quite good in a , but it 's so easy to get wrapped up with , obviously at that age it 's very impressionable and very like they , they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out |
| 19 | They were so delighted to have had the opportunity , for training , whatever the personal cost . |
| 20 | Tried ever so hard to get rid but she could n't , she did n't get rid of it , the other two did . |
| 21 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 22 | I am so glad to have met you again . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm so glad to have met you , ’ Anneliese was saying over the chatter and hubbub of the party , one-year-old Christian in her arms . |
| 24 | ‘ So glad to have seen you . ’ |
| 25 | Now you will be able to take advantage , for instance , of making a really sympathetic figure seem so likely to have committed the murder that your readers will be crying out , " Oh , no , no , do n't let it be that " . |
| 26 | It seemed so unfair to have faced one trial to prove my innocence , and now to face a kind of drumhead court martial as though I were guilty . |
| 27 | Nothing half so terrible had happened to her ; no one she loved had been killed or even hurt . |
| 28 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
| 29 | Symons lived a financially precarious life to the full and , in his own phrase , ‘ no one so poor has lived so well . ’ |
| 30 | They are now together and Robert says ‘ I am so happy having found someone I want to spend my life with . |