Example sentences of "he [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious . |
| 2 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 3 | Probably because even she had not expected him to sink so low . |
| 4 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 5 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 6 | He reached for Stone 's arm , but the man jerked away , panic growing , his pallid features quite flushed , now , with the sense of growing desperation that made him behave so urgently . |
| 7 | So we talked and I said well we would think about it and we would let him know so we collected all the friends that we thought would like to help which were many people were very good to help ! |
| 8 | She added : ‘ I 'm not worried about him driving so fast . |
| 9 | There was no better road racer than Cull in his day and I was delighted to see him looking so well on Saturday . |
| 10 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 11 | Pulling no punches , he asked Vincent what on earth had possessed him to behave so grotesquely . |
| 12 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 13 | He did n't want to watch the quiet parade of students — they made him feel so damned old . |
| 14 | In the lift to his floor he thought how odd it was that taking a firm stand should make him feel so bad-tempered . |
| 15 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 16 | What had Lavinia , Lady Merchiston done to make him speak so ? |
| 17 | But note Paul 's qualifying words , ‘ If the unbeliever leaves , let him do so . |
| 18 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 19 | If a student wishes to use them , by all means let him do so without hesitation . |
| 20 | If the Foreign Secretary is ready to say that he will veto such a treaty , I shall give way to let him do so . |
| 21 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 22 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 23 | When I pushed it back , as it made him look so hot , the skin of his forehead was burning . |
| 24 | Piper had never seen him look so vulnerable . |
| 25 | Staring up at him , her stomach in knots , she thought she 'd never seen him look so frighteningly distant and patrician … |
| 26 | She 'd seen Leo angry , mocking , bleak , but she had never seen him look so coldly murderous , so devoid of any human feeling , and she shivered . |
| 27 | I thought it was really very funny , this long straggly black hair , he looked absolutely miserable , he thought he was now spiritually calm and spiritually sane and he 's got this peculiar thing on his head that makes him look so daft . |
| 28 | For there was absolutely no need at all for him to walk so close to where she was walking or to bump into her and so catch her off balance — the end result being that he had his arms around her , as if to save her , before she could stop him . |
| 29 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 30 | Seeing him return so early from the fields , his wife , who was an energetic , hard-working woman , called out : " What ! |