Example sentences of "[pers pn] for so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 4 | Maureen was torn between her longing to hug Terry and gaze her fill on the young brother who had been lost to them for so long and pity for Frank who had no family to welcome him home . |
| 5 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know how you 've managed to carry all of this around with you for so long and still be a relatively sane , level-headed person . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I 'm contracted to tutor you for so many hours a day , and I 'm afraid I must insist on fulfilling my contract . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I admired him for so many years and was very proud to count myself among his close friends . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 14 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 16 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |
| 17 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 18 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 19 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 20 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 24 | If you leave it for so long though |
| 25 | He has it for so long . |
| 26 | You ran it for so long and then |
| 27 | I think it 's because I have n't done it for so long |
| 28 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 29 | Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future . |
| 30 | The prospect had been hanging over us for so many months that once Father ceased trading , it was as though the weight of worry was lifted . |