Example sentences of "[vb past] so " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I do n't know why the people who argued so much about it did n't go and ask these three what had happened . |
| 2 | Had an ITN camera crew been present in Safeways when my husband and I ( to use a Royal phrase ) argued so publicly over who was paying the £75 bill , heaven knows what conclusions they would have drawn . |
| 3 | Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle , who argued so much with Darwin , was a nephew of Lord Castlereagh , that haughty aristocratic Tory minister of Napoleonic days , and himself became a Tory M.P . |
| 4 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 5 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 6 | Yeah , thought Jay , as if wading through cement , let's be semantic , let's forget the way our eyes met , the way our bodies clung so hungrily together . |
| 7 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 8 | Production expanded so rapidly that home supplies of wool were insufficient , and imports from Australia and South America increased . |
| 9 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 10 | The hope cherished by the NIH team is that recombinant vaccinia viruses may be used to combat hepatitis B virus in Africa and Asia according to exactly the same strategy that succeeded so brilliantly with smallpox . |
| 11 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 12 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 13 | One national company succeeded so well in getting its slogan onto the race course during a sponsored meeting that the TV company refused to film again unless some of the items were removed . |
| 14 | Seldom had an impromptu French counter-attack succeeded so well . |
| 15 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 16 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 17 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 18 | Those sort of Places made so much they could afford the luxury of high standards . |
| 19 | If , for example , virulently anti-gay readers ‘ identify , with the emotions of love or loss present in the works of gay poets who , considerately ( cravenly ? ) , omit disturbing pronouns , how valuable is the ‘ identification , made so incompletely , in such ignorance ? |
| 20 | All those people cheering us on made so much difference . ’ |
| 21 | The distinction made so far between primary and secondary sources can be rendered even more useful if we adopt a further division of documents between what John Madge , after Gottschalk , called ‘ records ’ and ‘ reports ’ . |
| 22 | Tony it was who organized the bi-weekly dances in the ‘ Sunset Hall ’ as he christened the disused museum , and who scoured the neighbourhood to get regular orders for the cakes Susan made so well . |
| 23 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 24 | ‘ I find it surprising , ’ says Bingham , ‘ that this meeting made so little impression on Barnes … |
| 25 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 26 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 27 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 28 | If not , the logic of the threats made so far is that bombing must follow ; threats may have been unwise , but it would be even less wise to make them and fail to carry them out . |
| 29 | Proponents of this approach tend to feel that the changes made so far do not go far enough , however , and that excessive consideration for the biological parent-child relationship is still being allowed to put the child 's future at risk . |
| 30 | Editor , — John Wright and Helen Ford describe the anguish and despair affecting many sub-Saharan African countries and made so much worse recently by drought . |