Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was soon so unwell that he groaned with distress . |
| 2 | He was ever so big and he wore a dinner jacket . |
| 3 | He was once so alone that he needed to do something extraordinary in order to bring attention to himself . |
| 4 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 5 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 6 | Sometimes I found the odd social worker somewhat racist or maybe so ignorant that he appeared racist . |
| 7 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 8 | As a team with which to go goat-hunting it was not quite so exiguous as he implied . |