Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair . |
2 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
5 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
6 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
7 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |