Example sentences of "he [is] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the virus that killed him is so lethal that once it 's in the lungs it kills one in three of its victims . |
| 2 | Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off . |
| 3 | Esau 's welcome to the brother who had wronged him is so amazingly generous that Jesus may have had him in mind when he told the story of the prodigal son ( see Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 4 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 5 | ‘ Your concern for him is so touching . |
| 6 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 7 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 8 | Ashton 's Alain shows yet another aspect of the sad clown or ‘ little man ’ and can , when subtly played , gain much sympathy because , while things seem to go right , he is so pleased with life . |
| 9 | As to honest Partridge , he meant no wrong , for he is so bold a mountaineer , he can go anywhere that a sheep can ; and I dare say thinks every person can do the same . ’ |
| 10 | Freud is not , however , likely to be generally rejected , since he is so much part of the valued cultural furniture of the West . |
| 11 | Their whole game depends on getting the man on the ground out of the way , if necessary with the boot , if he is so unfortunate as to be between them and the ball . |
| 12 | He is so frustrated by the dearth of buyers for his pub , which is partly sixteenth-century with a 26-seat restaurant , that he has declared he will take a buyer 's property in part-exchange and then rent it out until the market improves . |
| 13 | And in the process of contesting racist representations of the negro 's ‘ sensuality ’ Fanon adds : ‘ I have never been able , without revulsion , to hear a man say of another man : ‘ He is so sensual ! ' ’ |
| 14 | Nathan needs to be helped from his shell clothing he is so tired , but we insist he must stay awake to eat . |
| 15 | If he is so right in offering the ambulance staff 6.5 per cent , if the ambulance staff are so unreasonable in rejecting it , what has he got to be so afraid of in going to arbitration which would end this dispute this afternoon ? |
| 16 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 17 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
| 18 | Why , she thought , he is so much more uncertain than I am , he has lost touch with the world of women , as I have with the world of men . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that he is so determined to retain control that he deliberately avoids working with famous directors such as Bertolucci , Cronenberg or Karel Reisz . |
| 20 | ‘ The first fence seemed so small for him because he is so big , ’ the jockey recalled delightedly . |
| 21 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 22 | ‘ He is so laid back about it all . |
| 23 | For example , he has a waking and sleeping pattern that follows closely the one regarded as normal — sleeps most at night , feeds at four regular intervals during the day even though he is so young . |
| 24 | P. He is so much more powerful , and goes for stuff fully . |
| 25 | We have already seen that the doctor may well honour this principle more in the breach than the observance if he is so minded . |
| 26 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 27 | Then he is so benevolent , so good tempered and cheerful , and , like William , interests himself so much about every little trifle . |
| 28 | Fable 45 in R. Dodsley 's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ( 1798 ) describes a man buying a parrot because he is so impressed by the bird 's saying ‘ I think the more ’ when asked why it is not chattering like the other parrots in the shop . |
| 29 | I still watch Elwood Glover 's TV programme at noon … he sure keeps going and has a wonderful following … he is so tactful and pleasant while interviewing anyone , and women flock to his programme … so here I go to watch Elwood … and then to lunch … much love to all . |
| 30 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |