Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then all of a sudden after so long you saw a new Alf . |
| 2 | They claim that employers are unlikely to consider anyone who has been out of a job for so long . |
| 3 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 4 | How could they sit around in a stupor for so long ? |
| 5 | Because I had n't been in a band for so long , there were plenty to choose from … |
| 6 | You 'd never know what way he 'd take you , being without a drink for so long . ’ |
| 7 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 8 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |