Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] [conj] he was " in BNC.

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1 Philip coached Richard in his schoolwork so efficiently that he was to pass the required certificate with ease despite having missed school for eighteen months .
2 Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime .
3 All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords .
4 The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square .
5 Did it really matter from whom a bishop had received the lands and symbols of his office so long as he was the representative of Christ to his flock ?
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