Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 2 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 3 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 4 | It was clear that Geoffrey Howe and myself would be the also-rans , but I was a little surprised that I ran so badly . |
| 5 | Caliban was surprised that I seemed so positively gay when he came in . |
| 6 | What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten ? |
| 7 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |