Example sentences of "have [verb] so [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 2 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 3 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 4 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 5 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |