Example sentences of "had so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay . |
| 2 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 3 | Unfortunately those clergy who had so eagerly and diligently defended and justified the war were likely to be engulfed and damaged by the pessimism and disillusion which its failure provoked : pacifism was commonly embraced by the lollards . |
| 4 | Certainly the visitor whose hand Creggan had so swiftly and accurately caught in his talons let out a cry of alarm and pain , trying to pull his hand away . |
| 5 | He was being very much the doctor , Sally-Anne noted , even through her distress , which was growing less by the minute as she regained the self-control which she had so suddenly and disastrously lost . |
| 6 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 7 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 8 | That had been the start of their relationship , which had so totally and dramatically changed her life . |
| 9 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |