Example sentences of "had so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 2 | She had so many daffs in her garden ; she could pick loads . |
| 3 | Only trouble was I had so much to do ; I never even had a chance to snorkel . |
| 4 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 5 | Brunel of course was deeply involved in the completion stage of the massive ‘ Great Eastern ’ — the largest ship the world had so far seen , and could not devote quite as much time to the project as the others . |
| 6 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 7 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 8 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 9 | My argument was that , as Michael Heseltine had so boldly listed Battersea Power Station in 1980 , it was illogical not to protect a much finer and more complete industrial work by the same architect . |
| 10 | Mr Pritchard , said results had so far been good , and it was well placed to achieve excellent full year figures . |
| 11 | This is particularly welcome : the 911 had so much weight concentrated over its tail that it was prone to locking front wheels in the wet . |
| 12 | A politician of intuition not of intellect , she served as the perfect antidote to the cerebral doctrines of the Keynesian planners of the 1945–79 period , against whose dominion she had so memorably rebelled . |
| 13 | In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat . |
| 14 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 15 | Where had they all gone , those extraordinary skinny left-wing men , who had bullied their girl-friends into the Women 's Movement and been surprised when the hand with which they had so kindly offered freedom had been bitten so damn hard ? |
| 16 | There was no space anywhere , even here , even in this free world , she thought , which they had so boldly created , for wildness . |
| 17 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 18 | I had so much time to look at him I can hardly believe it still , pushing the trolley , standing up in Nibs 's clothes . |
| 19 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 20 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 21 | I had so many clothes but my mother never said no to more . |
| 22 | Said it was time he did , meaning Maurice had so many kids and … well , you can get the message . ’ |
| 23 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 24 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 25 | The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly . |
| 26 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 27 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 28 | The Government was tempted to seek alternative partners in the Commonwealth and Europe , but did not do so because the Americans had so much more to offer if the MacMahon restrictions could be circumvented or ameliorated . |
| 29 | Its first concern is the phenomenon which , years earlier , had so intrigued Hobbes , and which engendered his interest in motion : the phenomenon of sense . |
| 30 | They chose Ian Botham , their young hero — he was then twenty-four — who had already performed great deeds in the twenty-five Tests he had so far played . |