Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working man was so successfully emancipated that he ( and even more , polls suggest , his wife ) ceased to defer to those who said they were his public spokesmen . |
| 2 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
| 3 | A shop manager who was beaten up and threatened with having his ears cut off is so badly traumatised that he 's still been unable to describe his ordeal to police . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that Biggs does not possess the heart but when so badly cut that he could not be allowed more than one more round he went back out and stopped David Bey . |
| 5 | Jack 's opportunity to break into the limelight came when Fred Dawes was so badly injured that he could not play again : Jack 's debut was as demanding as any Palace debut could be — at Millwall ! |
| 6 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 7 | Two niggling reservations lingered about Pinza as a Derby horse : his physique — a big horse , he might not be nimble enough down Tattenham Hill — and his temperament , for he was so highly strung that he was invariably ridden by a stable lad when led around the paddock , and the drawn-out preliminaries of the Derby might cause him to boil over . |
| 8 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 9 | Johnson found the terrain ‘ still naked ’ but bountiful , with land so utterly ploughed that he wondered where the grass grew to feed the plough-horses . |
| 10 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 11 | Granted that the whole of history may have a meaning , a purpose and a direction — and granted , too , the power and fruitfulness of many of Hegel 's ideas — are that purpose and direction so easily uncovered as he suggests ? |
| 12 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 13 | So carefully dressed when he came to applaud me and , with money given by Dad , to take me out to Simpson 's . |
| 14 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 15 | His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total . |
| 16 | The web was so finely woven that he had no way forward but by continuing the deceit . |
| 17 | The Colonel 's vain attempt to get a word in was so sharply smothered and he looked so rattled that Clarissa sat down again . |
| 18 | Sadly I have not read this but I am such a fan of the author and he is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere , and I just wanted to slip it in . |
| 19 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 20 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |