Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 2 | Without them it is questionable whether the Uprising would have happened and if it had , whether it could either have embraced the total population or sustained itself for so long . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 4 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 5 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 6 | He has it for so long . |
| 7 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 8 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 9 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 10 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 11 | I have n't seen him for so long . |
| 12 | I think it 's because I have n't done it for so long |
| 13 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 14 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 15 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 16 | Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night . |
| 17 | I 'm contracted to tutor you for so many hours a day , and I 'm afraid I must insist on fulfilling my contract . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now . |
| 19 | So erm now I 've talked you for so long that I 've not got time to play this bit about the werewolves at Retford you see |
| 20 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 21 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |
| 22 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
| 23 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 24 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 25 | Lydia did not castigate herself for so disliking a fellow-being , believing that it was sufficient merely to refrain from overt unkindness . |
| 26 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 27 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 28 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 29 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 30 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |