Example sentences of "so often [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 2 | And the player so often on the periphery of affairs with England is now the hub of a revitalised Liverpool . |
| 3 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 4 | How terrible it was to have those easy phrases , trotted out so often in the course of gossip , or heart-to-hearts , or in magazine articles , or even court cases , become so real . |
| 5 | ( Incidentally , note that as so often in the analysis of deixis , these various examples involve the overlapping organizations of the five basic categories of deixis : thus greetings usually involve temporal , person and discourse deixis ; demonstratives both space and person ; vocatives both person and social deixis ; and so on . ) |