Example sentences of "he [verb] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How come you let him have so much scrump ? ’ |
| 2 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 3 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 4 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 5 | Did he think so last night ? |
| 6 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 7 | ‘ He has so little faith in his own policies ’ |
| 8 | He has so much ability . |
| 9 | He has so much charisma and we should all be allowed to make one mistake in life . ’ |
| 10 | He has so much experience and already we understand each other . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if the character ends up in chamber 81d you might allow him to find the ring of Verena since he has so much time to kill . |
| 12 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 13 | He needs so much money ! |
| 14 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 15 | He spent so much time preening and posing and intimidating rivals and refusing to enter the competition before the bar became a danger to low-flying aircraft that he failed to clear a height . |
| 16 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 17 | He got the boot after his wife walked out and half the players quit because he spent so little time trying to improve the side 's miserable record in Delmenhorst , Germany . |
| 18 | The crucial experiment on which he placed so much weight was ‘ largely fictitious , newly invented for its present purpose ’ . |
| 19 | He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't think he took so much interest in me . |
| 21 | By not uttering a word to the audience , then keeping the stage shrouded in smoke , lit only from the back in lurid purple , orange and red , and reducing the band to shadowy figures looming out of a fog , he put so much distance between them and anybody past the regulation front-of-stage pogoers that attention easily wandered . |
| 22 | I tell him it 's another shooter , and he gives so little reaction I think he believes it . |
| 23 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 24 | One reason why Mr Severin 's books are usually impressive is that he spends so much time discussing the historical evidence for his theories . |
| 25 | But to realise he had so little faith in her — that really hurt . |
| 26 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 27 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 28 | Daddy had so many plans for Walker Hall but then he had so little time to do much . |
| 29 | He had so much excitement and so much energy , and a wonderful voice too . |
| 30 | He was , genuinely , a great man , a leader , he had so much size . |