Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 2 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 3 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 4 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 5 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 6 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 7 | He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup . |
| 8 | Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled . |
| 9 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 10 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 11 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 12 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 13 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 14 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 15 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 16 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 17 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 18 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 19 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 20 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 21 | somehow in the drama , even though it 's so long since he passed away . |
| 22 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 23 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |
| 24 | I think he held the reins back and smiled at the camera ; so long since he did it . |
| 25 | Mr Robinson could have a wide brief as well , so long as he keeps the chancellor 's confidence . |
| 26 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 27 | Warner v. Browne the lessor engaged not to turn out the tenant so long as he observed the conditions , and in this case [ the company 's agent ] engages that the tenant shall hold until the company require to pull down the buildings . |
| 28 | It does n't matter Charlotte , so long as he colours it in |
| 29 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 30 | So long as he had the support of Sir Rufus Stone , he could thumb his nose at Cotton . |