Example sentences of "he [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 2 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 3 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 4 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 5 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 6 | He moved so rapidly that by the time she had recovered enough to scream they were driving towards her flat . |
| 7 | She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about . |
| 8 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 9 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 10 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 11 | Loki was caught and punished by ODIN several times , once being imprisoned beneath the earth 's surface where he shook so violently that the world trembled . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's my duty , ’ he replied so piously that Corbett leaned back and roared with laughter . |
| 13 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 14 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 15 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ I do , Ruth , ’ he breathed so passionately that she was almost seduced into believing him . |
| 17 | He swore so violently that he nearly fell off ; then he froze . |
| 18 | He talked so steadily that I could hardly thank him . |
| 19 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 20 | When we compare such a view with that of Althusser , we can see why he feels so strongly that the scope of Marx 's theory has not been recognised . |
| 21 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 22 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 23 | He screamed so loudly that all the other animals ran to help him . |
| 24 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 25 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 26 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 27 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 28 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 29 | He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi . |
| 30 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |