Example sentences of "him so " in BNC.

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1 Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’
2 It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair .
3 She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so .
4 Both Sonya and Porfiry tell him so .
5 Is he wise to say , and make much of it , that people come up and tell him so ?
6 Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation .
7 Ramsey 's friends thought that he was an agnostic and were surprised to see him so prominent at the mission .
8 In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 .
9 Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her .
10 ‘ I never saw him so upset . ’
11 They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes .
12 If one stops for a piss the rest might catch up and if they do they will either fall straight over him so that you finish with a ball of dogs that will take forever to unwind , or they will take lumps out of him .
13 I love him so much I can not ever imagine leaving him .
14 Wexford took hold of his jacket roughly , pushing him so that his head jerked up .
15 At times he had been his conscience too — when the Prince had lost his temper or been rude to someone , Colborne would write him a note and tell him so .
16 Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire .
17 The Wolves manager Graham Turner said the striker 's first full England game last week had tired him so soon after a three-match ban .
18 Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions .
19 The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground .
20 The result is a sympathetic and charmingly balanced profile of this charismatic driver whose uninhibited spirit at the wheel made him so compelling to watch .
21 It was the latter fact that got him so many commissions from the Church of England , who abhorred the Catholic leanings of Pugin and his stable .
22 For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail .
23 His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said .
24 Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified .
25 Jane had never seen him so depressed , his anger frequently spilling over into words to her , as the dwellings went up with hideous and indecent haste , flaunting a flag : ‘ Waterloo Homes ’ right next to his drive .
26 He tried to pull Caspar with him so that they would be hidden by a tree , but Caspar hung back barking .
27 He knew women could n't resist flowers — Karen had once told him so .
28 The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them .
29 I loved him so much too .
30 But , even as she answered him so decisively , she was thinking : ‘ I did , did n't I ? ’
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