Example sentences of "he [verb] so [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 2 | He has so far refused to indicate whether he intends to appeal . |
| 3 | Although the resolution appeals to the UN Secretary General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , to ‘ encourage and facilitate ’ a comprehensive political settlement on the basis of the Geneva Accords ( which his Special Representative , Diego Cordovez , negotiated to cover the withdrawal of the Soviet army in January ) , he has so far hesitated to begin a new round of peace talks between the warring Afghan parties . |
| 4 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 5 | And yet , in spite of all his efforts and ingenuity , of huge expenditures of labour and money , he has so far failed to exterminate a single insect species . |
| 6 | As the Shah sat in the palace at Marrakesh , listening to Radio Teheran , the Army he had so fatefully nurtured began to fall apart . |
| 7 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 8 | The only thing he had so far managed to wreck was the Wilson family 's CD player . |
| 9 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |