Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 2 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 3 | Perhaps he 'd even hoped so , poor chap . |
| 4 | He 'd always said so . |
| 5 | He 'd always got so many acts going . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He lay there snoring so I thought he was messing about and told him to get up . |
| 7 | The Emperor Domitian condemned him , so he had evidently seemed so , to a Roman . |
| 8 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 9 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 10 | He was acting — he had just said so . |
| 11 | She had a vision of McNab calmly recording the manner of the Collector 's death , the way he had already recorded so many in the last weeks . |
| 12 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |
| 13 | His family , after his death , denied that he had ever done so . |
| 14 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants more and more bureaucratic institutions set up to do the work of existing institutions , he had better say so . |
| 15 | He had always seemed so stuffy and plain in his dress . |
| 16 | Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed , and the news spread . |
| 17 | He had never felt so frightened . |
| 18 | He had never felt so lonely , so isolated . |
| 19 | He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay . |
| 20 | He had never felt so ashamed . |
| 21 | He had never felt so fulfilled , so much at peace within himself . |
| 22 | American Ed Webster , one of the Buxton speakers , said a few days after visiting the Roaches that he had never seen so many climbers at a cliff . |
| 23 | The Sakata factory was a couple of kilometres into the valley and he had never ridden so fast in all his life . |
| 24 | Indeed , he had never looked so awake , all but shivering with awareness . |
| 25 | There was a feverish blush to his cheeks , as if he had seldom found so receptive an audience for his speculations . |
| 26 | He had certainly managed so far . |
| 27 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |