Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had serious talks with Italian factory Aprilia about a return to the 250 GP class where he had ridden so spectacularly for three seasons . |
| 2 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 3 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 4 | The plaintiff 's share of the responsibility for the damage he had suffered in the accident arose out of the finding that either he ought to have known that the defendant 's ability to drive was impaired or , more likely , that he had drunk so much himself that he was unable to tell that the defendant 's ability was in fact impaired . |
| 5 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 6 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 7 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 8 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 9 | For once , she must tell him the truth , never mind that he had behaved so badly last night . |
| 10 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 11 | He was non-committal , and she was surprised and relieved that he had agreed so swiftly . |
| 12 | It seemed to him that he had come so far in discovering so much about his problem but was unable to bring about any substantial change . |
| 13 | These were the years of Stalin 's purges , and it was fortunate that he had spent so long away at a great distance . |
| 14 | The one that he 's done so far was at the end of December and erm he is going to do one to the end of March and that 's going to be a regular thing . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 16 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 17 | I agree entirely with absolutely every point that he has made so effectively . |
| 18 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't solve Ireland 's problems with a gun , ’ their father had told them and he had repeated so often the words of Archbishop Paul Cullen , one of Ireland 's great clerics , that they were still fresh in Father Brendan 's mind . |
| 20 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 21 | The pill was all the more bitter for Woosnam because he had begun so well . |
| 22 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
| 23 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
| 24 | This may seem strange since he had worked so closely with Bushe-Fox , whose ideas and techniques were far in advance of his day . |
| 25 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 26 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 27 | And if Mr Mellor insists , as he has done so far , that the auction solution is not open to revision , let them ask him , kindly but firmly , if such crude competition is really the format to put on his Saturday screen the modern successors of Cantelli , Neveu and Lipatti . |
| 28 | Once one of the greatest centres in the world , Gerber demonstrated all the arts running , handling , tackling , kicking , passing and , as he has done so often , try-scoring . |
| 29 | He is not at all tired , even though he has driven so far . |