Example sentences of "[verb] him so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 3 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 5 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 6 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 7 | It is all so silly , and I would n't take him so seriously if it was n't for the fact that five years ago he had an affair and , yes , she had long hair . |
| 8 | She hit him so savagely that a woman with a pram told her to calm down . |
| 9 | She loved him so desperately and she knew he loved her , but maybe not enough . |
| 10 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 11 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 12 | It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit . |
| 13 | You loved him so much when you were a little girl . |
| 14 | She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft . |
| 15 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 16 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 17 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 18 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |
| 19 | After two years , he was judged to have learnt sufficient skills , and was apprenticed to a Plymouth shoe maker who treated him so harshly and badly that he was re-admitted to the workhouse where he stayed until he was 19 years old . |
| 20 | They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes . |
| 21 | We knew him so well and so when the time came and we saw how he was playing and how he was hitting the ball , that he could beat anyone ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 23 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 24 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 25 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 26 | He tried to move inside her , but she gripped him so tightly that there might have been a claw inside her vagina . |
| 27 | Carla put her arms round his waist , one hand lifted to clap his back , as a mother does to a child ; and held him so closely that the deep tremor of his sobbing ran through them both . |