Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] so " in BNC.

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1 Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music .
2 The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school .
3 ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school .
4 We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important .
5 To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important .
6 Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft .
7 I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path .
8 He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her .
9 No wonder I 'd seen so little of her .
10 But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview .
11 I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps .
12 All the goals I 'd met so far — O-levels , A-levels , university — had been pre-planned for me .
13 I had no idea I 'd invited so many people .
14 ‘ I did n't realize I 'd got so cold . ’
15 I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean .
16 There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception .
17 ‘ I did n't know what to believe , I 'd got so worked up … ’
18 Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that .
19 He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through .
20 " I 'd identified so much with the Africans .
21 Nick could n't understand it , he said he could n't understand why I 'd changed so much .
22 At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often .
23 I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds .
24 Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning .
25 I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre .
26 Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay .
27 ‘ But should I have done so ?
28 And would I have got so much just from a voice ?
29 Why should someone have fired so low ? ’
30 I had made so many enemies .
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