Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place . |
| 2 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 3 | The proof of this is to be found in the calendar of saints ' days for the Canterbury community which he had so offensively purged . |
| 4 | He died at eighty , after a full span of the retired leisure for which he had so frequently sighed , both publicly and privately . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended . |
| 6 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 7 | The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned . |
| 8 | Miss D'Arcy was with Mrs Moore in the parlour in which he had so recently talked with the Colonel . |
| 9 | He had been forced to make the move ‘ from the safe haven of the monastery to the tumultuous and wreck-strewn storms of the world ’ , against which he had so often cautioned others ; and there was no release in sight . |
| 10 | As prime minister from April and with a general election to be fought , he now pressed arguments which he had so often criticized when urged by Churchill . |
| 11 | He let his hands travel up beneath the chemise to her breasts , which he had so often coveted , and handled them boldly . |
| 12 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 13 | Once a child has survived his vulnerable first five years , his expectation of life naturally increases , but this increase will vary in direct proportion to the dangers which he has so far evaded : thus the United Kingdom 5 year old can now expect to live until he is 75 , the American until he is 72 . |
| 14 | Providing he retains control ( which he has so far succeeded in doing ) , he can play the media and not be affected by the media 's idiosyncrasy . |
| 15 | She nodded and then , as steadily as she had accepted everything he had so far said , ‘ Colonel Moore will want to write his letters , of course . |
| 16 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 17 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 18 | His response , echoing what he had so often done on the battlefield , was first to sit tight and then to try to turn an apparently negative situation to his advantage . |
| 19 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |