Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where he has so recently expended himself , disappear beneath her skirt , pulled down in one deft movement . |
| 2 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was the most disturbing thing about this whole affair , the fact that he had so easily taken away her freedom of choice . |
| 4 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 5 | According to one account , Moorcroft caught a fever and died near Ladakh ( now in north-western Afghanistan ) in 1825 , while Smith says he was murdered on 27 August 1825 , ‘ doubtless by the ‘ cup of medicated tea ’ that he had so frequently described as being his destined end' . |
| 6 | And he had so nearly succeeded ! |
| 7 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 8 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 9 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 10 | The question arises whether a subcontract owner-driver is really an independent contractor or , in fact , because he does so much work for a particular haulier , an employee of that haulier . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 12 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 13 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 14 | And for the first time since he had so suddenly reappeared in her life Laura saw her husband 's shoulders slump , almost as if he was bearing the weight of his own brother 's horrific injuries . |
| 15 | Patrick had of course ( yet why of course when he had so nearly died ? ) resumed his role as poet , jester , teaser , charmer , visited by his old pub companions , and doted upon by Alison and Franca . |
| 16 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 17 | As he had so often done during the Civil War , he sat behind the battle lines , watching through his binoculars as the two sides fought it out . |
| 18 | He smiled , seeing it ahead of him ; imagining Beth there in the low-beamed living room , the fire lit and the curtains drawn ; seeing her , as he had so often seen her , go to the back door and call the children in from the meadow . |
| 19 | Again Shiona was filled with the urge to say it , to hurt him as he had so often hurt her . |
| 20 | Then she told herself he had only got the better of her because she was , as he had so rightly said , suffering from shock and exhaustion . |
| 21 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 22 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |