Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 2 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 3 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 4 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 5 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 6 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 7 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 8 | The patient may have to move about in a relatively confined area , so you have to make sure he can do so safely before he begins . |
| 9 | ‘ No man practises so well as he writes . |
| 10 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
| 11 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 12 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 13 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 14 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 15 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 16 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |