Example sentences of "he [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but he do n't , he looks so hard done by I do n't think . |
| 2 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 3 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has so far received on his White Paper about reform of local government . |
| 5 | Once a child has survived his vulnerable first five years , his expectation of life naturally increases , but this increase will vary in direct proportion to the dangers which he has so far evaded : thus the United Kingdom 5 year old can now expect to live until he is 75 , the American until he is 72 . |
| 6 | The advent of Andy Reed belatedly persuaded the selectors to move Doddie Weir to No8 where , between the great-hearted , combative Turnbull and an Iain Morrison now reproducing his best London Scottish form , he has so far done splendidly as an embryonic Mervyn Davies or Murray Mexted . |
| 7 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 8 | Providing he retains control ( which he has so far succeeded in doing ) , he can play the media and not be affected by the media 's idiosyncrasy . |
| 9 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 10 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 11 | He has so far helped some 15 people on their way . |
| 12 | Although Mr Major has said he wants the debate over Scotland 's future to be extended , he has so far refused to be drawn on the need for a referendum . |
| 13 | He has so far refused to indicate whether he intends to appeal . |
| 14 | He uses the same methods as with the other five people he has so far deceived , his ‘ outward action ’ being the opposite of the ‘ native act and figure ’ of his heart , but he carries the principle of inversion much further . |
| 15 | Although the resolution appeals to the UN Secretary General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , to ‘ encourage and facilitate ’ a comprehensive political settlement on the basis of the Geneva Accords ( which his Special Representative , Diego Cordovez , negotiated to cover the withdrawal of the Soviet army in January ) , he has so far hesitated to begin a new round of peace talks between the warring Afghan parties . |
| 16 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 17 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 18 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 19 | And yet , in spite of all his efforts and ingenuity , of huge expenditures of labour and money , he has so far failed to exterminate a single insect species . |
| 20 | When the story begins Marco , a strong , handsome lad of twelve , is beginning to see more meaning in the oath he has so often sworn on his father 's sword , brought out from its hiding-place under the floorboards of their lodging : |
| 21 | where he has so recently expended himself , disappear beneath her skirt , pulled down in one deft movement . |
| 22 | ‘ To the strong believer the torture and massacre of six million is one chapter — one only — in the millennial dialogue between God and the people He has so terribly chosen . ’ |
| 23 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |
| 24 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 25 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 26 | Although his head was throbbing almost intolerably , he 'd felt sober enough to ring for breakfast in his room , and had done his best to contemplate the ‘ Full English ’ he 'd so foolishly ordered for 7 a.m . |
| 27 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 28 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 29 | Poor Walter , he worked so hard writing the family history . |
| 30 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |