Example sentences of "he [prep] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 2 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 3 | I have n't seen him for so long . |
| 4 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 5 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 6 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 7 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 8 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 9 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 10 | Rage at a fate which prevented her from screaming and railing at him for so misjudging her , rage at him for playing this cat-and-mouse game with her , rage at herself for letting him get away with it . |
| 11 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 12 | A High Court judge was told it was unlawful to jail him for so long . |
| 13 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
| 14 | Yeah that was so , it was fucking random , I 've never talked to him in my entire life , I ended up , after we all left , talking to him for so long |
| 15 | He also feels bitter towards Joanna for putting him through so much : ‘ In one respect I feel sorry for her . |
| 16 | He felt a touch of the animated earnestness that had carried him through so many meetings . |
| 17 | One must hope that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role next week , but meanwhile the company is to be congratulated on replacing him with so sterling a performance by this seasoned professional . |
| 18 | But Hendry was unwittingly being protected behind a wall of silence , Doyle deciding that it was pointless to unduly alarm him with so many big tournaments coming up and while police collaborated with British Telecom to try and trace the woman . |
| 19 | Another defeat , or even a draw for Taylor , will leave him with so much work to do to close the gap . |
| 20 | As she laughed , his eyes travelled briefly over her features , a smile in them , and then brushed lightly over the frame of copper that had struck him with so devastating an effect . |
| 21 | His mother should n't of sent him with so much money . |
| 22 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 23 | Information on individual cases is referred to him in so far as it might help him to frame proposals for orders and changes in the law . |
| 24 | " I have n't told him in so many words , but he 'd understand . |
| 25 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 26 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 27 | Alexander angrily complied , furious that the King could put him to so much trouble on a wild , bitterly cold night . |
| 28 | Though , had she thought she might get out of his car and leave him without so much as a word being said between them , she found she was mistaken . |