Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 2 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 3 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 4 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 5 | Lewis was markedly less exclusive and less austere ; but he had once borrowed a copy of Eliot 's verse in 1926 from John Betjeman , then an unsatisfactory Oxford pupil , and it had enraged him — so much so that he had organised a cabal to write spoof verse in the Eliot manner to introduce into his quarterly Criterion . |
| 6 | There , too , he was overwhelmed by what he saw ; so much so that he went back with Hanns for a hectic fortnight at the end of September . |
| 7 | One of the somewhat older guy , he can orchestrate it so much so that he gets his gold out of it . |
| 8 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 9 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 10 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 11 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 12 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 13 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 14 | Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand . |
| 15 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 16 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 17 | He knew only too well that he had something that Amaranth wanted very badly indeed access to the Arden candidate 's selection committee . |
| 18 | The respondent was alleged to have grappled the father of the young man around the neck and pushed him away so violently that he fell and cut his head above the right eye . |
| 19 | She told us just now merely that he said he had a gun but you you remember that it is a hand gun . |
| 20 | It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer . |
| 21 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 22 | He spun around so fast that he came close to falling over , his heart leaping like a bird in a snare . |