Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] for so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were he to refuse them , as he has done for so long , he would do himself , as well as the public , a grave disservice . ’ |
| 2 | IT 'S a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides to quit the arena he has graced for so long . |
| 3 | Chapman had at last got the player he had wanted for so long . |
| 4 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
| 5 | This was the day he had waited for so long — the day of the fair . |
| 6 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 7 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 8 | These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long . |
| 9 | Middleton 's body was washed up sometime later on the south coast of England , the country he had fought for so valiantly , and I commend you to read Chaz Bowyer 's citation , which embraces the official citation for Middleton 's VC , in his book The Bomber VCs . |
| 10 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 11 | He twisted to shield himself , tried to pull himself round and use that big machine-gun he had carried for so long . |