Example sentences of "[adv] he was so " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 2 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 3 | Probably he was so successful in this field because he himself was an artist . |
| 4 | Two years previously he had wanted to hit back at fate for the death of his three cousins ; now he was so joyful that he felt he must compensate in this sacrificial way . |
| 5 | Now he was so close he though he might call on Gary 's horse before he went home . |
| 6 | And now he was so respectable . |
| 7 | Now he was so close to a possible solution , he felt the urge to linger . |
| 8 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 9 | Sometimes he was so tense in her presence that he-could n't speak at all . |
| 10 | Then he was so small . |
| 11 | He paid no attention to the confusion of hoof-marks at that spot , indeed he was so intent on fuelling his anger that he was barely aware of them . |
| 12 | Indeed he was so far intent on this reference to visual reality that he strenuously advocated , not only in his teaching but in his own practice , a reliance on the camera , tracing a dependence on it back to the use of the camera lucida by Vermeer and Canaletto , as well as by Millett , Degas — and he might have added Monet — in more recent times , and adding the only proviso that , like alcohol , it is only permissible to those who can do without it . |
| 13 | And yet he was so kind — so understanding . |
| 14 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 15 | He sat with his arms folded , staring down at the fancy tablecloth and when he did speak again he was so quiet that they could hardly hear him , so they had to listen seriously — even Sean and Michael , who were never , or rarely serious . |