Example sentences of "he [vb past] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The crucial experiment on which he placed so much weight was ‘ largely fictitious , newly invented for its present purpose ’ . |
| 7 | He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't think he took so much interest in me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But to realise he had so little faith in her — that really hurt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Daddy had so many plans for Walker Hall but then he had so little time to do much . |
| 14 | He had so much excitement and so much energy , and a wonderful voice too . |
| 15 | He was , genuinely , a great man , a leader , he had so much size . |
| 16 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 17 | Baltusnikas shot wide , scarcely believing he had so much room in the Republic 's penalty area ; Bonner finger-tipped a Kirilovas shot round the post ; Slekys shaved the post with a close-range toe-poke ; and then Bonner saved again from Stumbrys . |
| 18 | ‘ He had so much talent and there it was , going to waste . |
| 19 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 20 | He had so much energy even when he got old , he had so much energy . |
| 21 | He had so much energy even when he got old , he had so much energy . |
| 22 | Nathan was filled with importance : he carried so much information this mysterious beauty wanted to hear about . |
| 23 | He said so this morning . |