Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scowled heavily ; obviously he regretted saying so much . |
| 2 | Moving closer to home , on the offence of causing death by dangerous or drunken driving , the hon. Member for Huddersfield referred to the Road Traffic Act 1991 , whereby an offender will be found guilty if he drives dangerously , thereby causing someone 's death , whether or not he intended to do so or even knew about it . |
| 3 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 4 | Back then he had sounded so certain — so sure of things — but even then he had questioned it , at some deeper level . |
| 5 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 6 | An investigation into how he managed to escape so easily is now underway . |
| 7 | Not when he had stooped so low , exploited the fact that she was a woman , used his own sexual ego to ridicule her and dominate . |
| 8 | If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully . |
| 9 | On being asked by her/his commander why he had become so fat , she replied ‘ 'T IS strong beer and tobacco which is the cause of that ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |