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

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31 There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it .
32 His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one .
33 But whether it is worthwhile — or even possible — to return to the older project , to which Hall himself made so many pioneering contributions , is a different matter .
34 Section 426(4) of the Act of 1986 envisages co-operation between United Kingdom courts and the insolvency courts of other countries , but the only order made so far is of limited application : see the Co-operation of Insolvency Courts ( Designation of Relevant Countries and Territories ) Order 1986 ( S.I .
35 It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity .
36 Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember
37 ‘ Would n't you like to know how Moll Sutton made so much money that she could get herself a shop ? ’
38 He made so many plans for this wedding .
39 They are of the opinion that a Wooden Bridge on the water of Killarow near the Walk-Mill is very necessary , and should be built as soon as possible and made so sufficient that Horses may pass .
40 Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound .
41 The observations made so far may be summed up in terms of four historical phases throughout which Hellenic creativity was dominated by the two impulses .
42 Lot o think a lot of them were made , supplied by the merchant and they were made properly by the erm , you can say sh you can say er er any shoemaker perhaps or they 'd be a factory what made so many pairs like .
43 But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered .
44 The assumptions made so far about the input-output relations of the economy have been simplistic in the extreme .
45 She 's had such a good time and made so many new friends that she 's quite resigned to going back to school in a few days ’ time . ’
46 I made so many mistakes about you .
47 Of the savings made so far , £180,000 is in time saved in the work we do .
48 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the progress made so far in reforming the European Community 's common agricultural policy .
49 I welcome the moves made so far by my right hon. Friend to encourage manufacturers to make cars more defensible .
50 I have not heard the ’ white heat of the technological revolution ’ speech made so well for many years .
51 In a short speech , I shall not attempt to make again the points made so tellingly by others , not least my right hon. Friends the Members for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Plymouth , Devonport ( Dr. Owen ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford ( Mr. Cash ) .
52 Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the most important subjects on which he obviously made so much progress with President Yeltsin was that of non-proliferation ?
53 Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position .
54 24 Johnson Matthey responds to The Call the progress made so far in fund raising for Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
55 Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church .
56 He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy .
57 Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’
58 Spectators would thus have the interest of professionals playing with well-known personalities on the formula made so popular by Peter Alliss 's programmes , followed by the drama of a full-blooded professional shoot-out .
59 I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits .
60 A spokesman said the complaints made so far have tended to be of a civil nature , but added : If we receive a complaint which can be substantiated then we will investigate it .
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