Example sentences of "[noun] so often [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He relates it to Lennie so often that he almost begins to believe it himself , although underneath he knows that it can never happen .
2 They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives .
3 Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play .
4 It seems to be happening far too often , and I wonder i I wonder what 's actually going wrong that this happening so often and in so many places , seems to be something that you know , perhaps we need to address it far more generally as a problem of housing management as a whole .
5 After a long searching , entangled in other happenings , detained by pointless encounters far from the village , I wake , and that place whose spirit so often but always so briefly has been within my reach , is once more lost forever .
6 The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square .
7 How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ?
8 Sometimes parents rip off stars from charts so often that the child never has enough to exchange for the big reward .
9 It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing !
10 Erm there 's the legendary Doctor Keat of Eton who er was was erm legendary precisely because he beat the boys so often and so vigorously .
11 But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue .
12 I knew why Hutton called in Doreen so often when he could perfectly well have given her memos .
13 The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable .
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