Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 2 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 3 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 4 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 5 | I wrote that I had done so before going to Athos . |
| 6 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 7 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
| 8 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 9 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |