Example sentences of "he [vb past] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 6 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 7 | Poor Walter , he worked so hard writing the family history . |
| 8 | She caught sight of it and put up her other hand , and with a finger stroked his bottom lip until he flinched and turned his head away , parting his lips as he did so however to bite her finger slightly , and close on it . |
| 9 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 10 | When Lyle won the Masters in 1988 , he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro . |
| 11 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 12 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 14 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 15 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 16 | ‘ Looks promising , ’ he agreed , turning to speak to the waiter , who had arrived to brandish a bottle of the red wine which he had so enthusiastically recommended . |
| 17 | Perhaps that was the most disturbing thing about this whole affair , the fact that he had so easily taken away her freedom of choice . |
| 18 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 19 | It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault . |
| 20 | As the Shah sat in the palace at Marrakesh , listening to Radio Teheran , the Army he had so fatefully nurtured began to fall apart . |
| 21 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 22 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 23 | And he had so nearly succeeded ! |
| 24 | Patrick had of course ( yet why of course when he had so nearly died ? ) resumed his role as poet , jester , teaser , charmer , visited by his old pub companions , and doted upon by Alison and Franca . |
| 25 | Ferguson then said he would buy the title for the fans he had so badly let down . |
| 26 | Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place . |
| 27 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 28 | He died at eighty , after a full span of the retired leisure for which he had so frequently sighed , both publicly and privately . |
| 29 | According to one account , Moorcroft caught a fever and died near Ladakh ( now in north-western Afghanistan ) in 1825 , while Smith says he was murdered on 27 August 1825 , ‘ doubtless by the ‘ cup of medicated tea ’ that he had so frequently described as being his destined end' . |
| 30 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |