Example sentences of "man so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the odds are against them … the bookies do n't give them a chance … but never never write off a team driven by a man so determined as Horton |
| 2 | And yet how could a man so beset fail to hold it against him ? |
| 3 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 4 | New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud . |
| 5 | But fans were saddened to see the great man so affected by Parkinson 's disease . |
| 6 | Never had any man so looked down his nose at her . |
| 7 | Jean-Marc Lhermet , in particular , excelled when the man so sprung . |
| 8 | For a man so rooted in his domesticity the nomadic life of the Official War Artist was a gamble . |
| 9 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 10 | Never was a man so constrained by time . |