Example sentences of "his [noun] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing his sister so well , he was aware that despite her denial , her decision to abandon the idea of marriage to Harry had already been made . |
| 2 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ’ |
| 4 | A month later , just before he was about to set off on his journey ‘ into the interior by way of Namoi , Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin in Hobart of his progress so far : ‘ After spending a fortnight in the lowland brushes I proceeded to the upper districts and the Liverpool ranges whence I have just returned having made several discoveries of new species both of Birds and Quadrupeds , of the latter I believe I have two new kinds of Kangaroo . ’ |
| 5 | Candice Riberon who was in a thriller called Le Métro is his favourite so far , but there is a long way to go . |
| 6 | He had played his part so well throughout the day , holding her hand as they had strolled along the beach , looking into her eyes in that way that made her bones melt . |
| 7 | Clive had returned to England with his private profits from his trading and military activities , though he spent his money so fast ( largely on an unsuccessful attempt to get into Parliament ) that he was soon back in India , serving on what was becoming recognizable as the military side of the Company 's concerns . |
| 8 | If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little . |
| 9 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 10 | The statutory scheme for bankruptcy is to be found in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 and has the following main objectives : ( 1 ) to enable the bankrupt 's affairs and dealings to be investigated under the control of the court ; ( 2 ) to provide the statutory machinery for the collection and rateable distribution of the bankrupt 's available assets ( or those assets which ought to form part of his estate ) with a view to satisfying his debts so far as may be practicable ; ( 3 ) to rehabilitate the bankrupt through the process of discharge . |
| 11 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |
| 12 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 13 | Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ? |
| 14 | Iago 's manipulation of the verbal sign was never more brilliant , for he has only to offer the Signifier , ‘ Lie ’ — which could mean ‘ tell an untruth ’ — for Othello to snatch the Signified , ‘ lie with ’ , which has been planted in his consciousness so remorselessly . |
| 15 | He saw Owen redden with pleasure , and laughed , flinging an arm about his shoulders so forgetfully that it was a worthy as well as a willing sacrifice Owen made for him , containing the pain of the embrace . |
| 16 | THE gunman in the Darlington siege loved his girlfriend so much he resorted to violence in a fit of jealousy , it was claimed last night . |
| 17 | He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad . |
| 18 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 19 | Even so , the question remains : why does the sexually jeaLous male envisage his rival so erotically ? |
| 20 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 21 | He had a marvellous game , did n't waste a pass , won all his tackles , laid on both Martin Foyle 's goals , obviously Martin Foyle back in the side , took his goals so well ; really put himself about and Steve Foster at the back really held things together when erm things could have gone really calamitously . |
| 22 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 23 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 24 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 25 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 26 | They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more . |
| 27 | I congratulate my hon. Friend on his work so far . |
| 28 | This he has performed , but owing to the hurry , consequent on his departure for Australia , — an expedition from which the science of Ornithology will derive such great advantages , — he was compelled to leave some part of his manuscript so far incomplete , that without the possibility of person communication with him , I was left in doubt on some essential points . |
| 29 | He remembered his philosophy so clearly . |
| 30 | Philip coached Richard in his schoolwork so efficiently that he was to pass the required certificate with ease despite having missed school for eighteen months . |