Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 2 | That 's probably why she got through so many women . |
| 3 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 4 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 5 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 6 | She 's not painted for so long that she 'll just have to be encouraged more and more . |
| 7 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 8 | ‘ I thank you for the warning , sir , ’ Theda said demurely , ‘ and will hope to be forgiven for so wantonly playing the temptress . ’ |
| 9 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 10 | This has been described as " the affection of a man that clingeth to God , a homely and pious speaking , a standing of the enlightened soul unto enjoying for so long as may be " . |
| 11 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 12 | Er now these are more important asked about so I think we should be very clear on it before er we reduce spending . |
| 13 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 14 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 15 | ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 17 | Clarkson and Wilberforce , partly because they lived for so long , frequently sent off autographs with motto attached and Clarkson received and met requests for locks of his thinning hair . |
| 18 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 19 | The king was astonished that he asked for so little , and readily agreed . |
| 20 | Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ? |
| 21 | ‘ The freedom and way of life we have been accustomed to enjoy for so long will vanish ’ , Kenneth Oxford , Chief Constable of Merseyside , prophesied in 1977 ; ‘ what we are experiencing is not a passing phenomenon but a continuing process of change in our way of life … our customary ways of behaving and our traditional values are being radically modified . ’ |
| 22 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 23 | She 'd had no lunch and was beginning to feel the effects of not eating for so long . |
| 24 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 25 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 26 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 27 | Only in per capita wealth did the town have a slight edge , and then perhaps less decisively than might be expected for so important a centre . |
| 28 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 29 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 30 | From October , with the birth of the British Athletics Federation ( BAF ) , British athletics should finally give the sport the constitution it has for so long struggled to devise . |