Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] he was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 2 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 3 | So long as he was successful in that action too , a further thirty days later he was authorized to proceed to execution . |
| 4 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 5 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 6 | So far as he was concerned , I could become a Muslim or a Jew , provided I got good School Certificates . |
| 7 | These were cant phrases so far as he was concerned and they missed the point . |
| 8 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 9 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 10 | So far as he was concerned , a great danger had been averted , and the matter was now closed , but it had a sequel which we may now follow . |
| 11 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 12 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 13 | The fact that Bunn had both the guarantee and the charge drawn up and executed both by the husband and himself on Friday , 23 July , and his evidence that the wife 's attendance on the Monday was , so far as he was concerned , a mere formality , shows that all that remained was to get the wife 's signature in accordance with bank policy . |
| 14 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 15 | There was a moment , particularly at tea , when I would sense that our conversation was , so far as he was concerned , due to come to an end . |
| 16 | So far as he was concerned , she was fair game ; that accounted for his behaviour in her bedroom , the scene in the hired car last night . |
| 17 | In Goldring 's case , the customer had done something clearly conveying to the finance company that he did not own the van and that so far as he was concerned the seller ( the trader ) had every right to sell it . |
| 18 | So far as he was concerned they were both promised to other people . |
| 19 | And the ‘ never ’ came out so wildly that he was surprised again , and , his eyes still watchful , he said , ‘ I thought not , but you must see , McAllister , I had to ask you — for your sake . ’ |
| 20 | His hands trembled so violently that he was unable to bring it to his lips . |