Example sentences of "to have [verb] so [det] " in BNC.

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1 I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved .
2 We had to have solved so much problems and I just this way and I just would n't have it you know it 's just impossible it 's impossible and I hummed and hawed which way and hummed and hawed which way .
3 And , as I 've touched on that subject , as an engineer , I am glad to have seen so many ladies in the teams tonight !
4 To have saved so much from your stage success … ’
5 It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science .
6 In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC .
7 To have found so many rich remains in one compact concentrated area is quite unprecedented ’ , says curator Yael Yisraeli .
8 The big thing actually seemed happy to have caused so much turmoil and confusion .
9 It was such a small thing to have caused so much trouble , and still to have the power to destroy .
10 ‘ He must be good to have scored so many in a struggling side .
11 I always have and always will , and we seem to have wasted so much time . ’
12 She reported : ‘ People were also pleased to hear that it will be far more difficult to avoid paying and so they will be less likely to have to pay so much for other people 's arrears . ’
13 It was maddening to have achieved so much and yet to have lost the object of it all .
14 Kylie really does seem like a very sweet person , and it is , after all , quite remarkable for a woman with all the sex appeal of Andy Pandy and the vocal panache of Bosco to have achieved so much , so young .
15 Nietzsche 's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought .
16 Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking .
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