Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman timed it so he would arrive back at Greenway Gardens after dark . |
| 2 | As for ( b ) , by supporting Iraq in the Gulf war Mr Arafat made himself so unpopular that most Arab governments no longer want him to be involved . |
| 3 | It is easy to see why Richard Strauss admired him so much : there is not only the immense natural craftsmanship , but an ease of invention comparable to his own and indeed in one or two places containing suggestions of some of his own harmonic manner . |
| 4 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 5 | I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it . |
| 6 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 7 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
| 8 | In his French interview , Cantona said of his time at Leeds : ‘ I had become boss of the team , and manager Howard Wilkinson told me so . |
| 9 | The true situation is as Patrick Wilson put it so well in another seminal work : |
| 10 | These rolls were a speciality of Baden , and the people of Zurich liked them so much that a special train used to leave Baden early every morning so that they were in Zurich fresh and in time for breakfast . |
| 11 | The really stupid thing is that Pardy got everything so wrong . |
| 12 | It was easy to see why Rose found him so attractive ; whether he cared for her was another matter and nothing to do with Melissa or her present mission . |
| 13 | Leading woman trainer Mary Reveley said : ‘ Arthur helped me so much . |
| 14 | ‘ No wonder Colonel Fagg kept it so simple , ’ said Amiss . |
| 15 | As Professor E.C.S. Wade put it so powerfully several years ago : |
| 16 | But that , too , was the time when Mrs Aggie struck her so hard that she had fallen on her back , and all because she had called Mrs Nelson ‘ a bloody cow ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Jack told me so many things but what I remember most was him stressing that I should keep my energy and emotional levels the same throughout a round of golf . |
| 18 | Boswell loathed him so much that his first edition of the Tour to the Hebrides had to be amended on account of the unflattering position he took on Sir Alexander . |
| 19 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 20 | Brian loved me so much he could n't face hurting me . |
| 21 | When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’ |
| 22 | Jules had told her she was attractive , Félix found her so , and she would have had to be blind not to see the admiring glances of strangers when she went to a café or on a promenade with Jules . |
| 23 | Yet the bowlers defended well , and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense . |
| 24 | The trouble was , Dan liked it so much he tended to spread it around and that was no good to Kate . |
| 25 | For better or for worse the studio system the moguls created , dubbed by its detractors as the slave trade , which had discovered and nursed the greatest names of Hollywood of three decades , and probably ever , was on the verge of collapse , though as Elizabeth Taylor put it so succinctly : ‘ The death rattle seemed never ending . ’ |
| 26 | It was easy to understand why Jenny found him so fascinating . |
| 27 | ‘ They were n't nicked mate , ’ Billy said earnestly , ‘ Herbie Connors found 'em so look out . ’ |
| 28 | I was going to knock for I was still intrigued by him but Benjamin called me so I let the matter rest . |
| 29 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 30 | But he still feels miffed and mystified as to why manager Kevin Keegan discarded him so readily from St James ' Park and why no other Premier League clubs were willing to hire his lethal skills . |