Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But Community Care can reveal how she so easily fell prey to her son and lost almost everything .
2 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 .
3 Surely they must have some doubts , made some mental reservations to the creed they so confidently recited morning and night .
4 So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death .
5 Although the ‘ swingingness ’ of the 1960s had been absent in the 1970s and 1980s , drug-taking had increased among young and old alike ( 'coke' if you were middle-class , glue-sniffing if you were poor ) , and so too had alcoholism .
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