Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] he " in BNC.
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1 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
2 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
5 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
6 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
7 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
8 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
9 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
10 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
11 | By the end of the evening he described his voice as being in the most distressing condition , the problem had returned so acutely that he was hardly able to speak . |