Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] had so " in BNC.

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1 This was obviously not Silvia , Guido 's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love !
2 Salisbury and Malcolm , the contrasting pair of bowlers on whom England had so creditably gambled , kept at it , and took another wicket apiece .
3 But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed .
4 But it was precisely Gould 's unshakeable commonsense , which Havell had so reviled , that was beginning to antagonise the rival American camp , and it was with exasperation that they watched Gould set off for Europe on a reconnoitring trip for his second publication .
5 The country beyond the mountain range was completely different from the bushland that bordered the coast and to which Gould had so far been confined .
6 And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment .
7 The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it .
8 The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission .
9 He wished he had one of those ‘ feelings ’ which Dalziel had so efficiently mocked .
10 She really could not , under the circumstances , be expected to love Angharad , thought Lydia , remembering the hostility and anger which Elizabeth had so briefly exhibited last night .
11 Austria and the Sudetenland within six months represented the triumph of those methods of political warfare which Hitler had so sedulously applied in the past five years .
12 Alix , whom Brian had so unexpectedly married , represented a world beyond articulate resentment , too remote to attack .
13 Thrown away what Jez had so lovingly grown for her in Nutristem back at home .
14 For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true .
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