Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 6 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For once , she must tell him the truth , never mind that he had behaved so badly last night . |
| 9 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 10 | He was non-committal , and she was surprised and relieved that he had agreed so swiftly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These were the years of Stalin 's purges , and it was fortunate that he had spent so long away at a great distance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 15 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 16 | I agree entirely with absolutely every point that he has made so effectively . |