Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 2 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 3 | ‘ I thank you for the warning , sir , ’ Theda said demurely , ‘ and will hope to be forgiven for so wantonly playing the temptress . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 6 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 7 | There was a clear view of the table where she had sat for so long . |
| 8 | He twisted to shield himself , tried to pull himself round and use that big machine-gun he had carried for so long . |
| 9 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 10 | Some magnificent results have come in so far with Badenoch and Strathspey being 71% , Nithsdale 99% and East Lothian 100% up on last year . |
| 11 | Almost £9,000 in donations have come in so far and Lynda hopes that when charitable status is granted to the Tabor Trust , more people will be encouraged to help . |
| 12 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 13 | The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up . |
| 14 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 15 | No other substance at the enormous pressures that must exist at even relatively shallow depths in Jupiter could possibly be compressed to so comparatively slight an average density . |
| 16 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 17 | In the medical climate of the 1920s , when the possibility of chemotherapy was looked on so unfavourably , mycobacteria were among the least promising organisms to choose for such treatment . |
| 18 | Erm The Body , The Body Shop staff were all give were all given training were n't they and , and a lot of details and they had a video that they use with them , perhaps that 's the aspect that 's not been looked at so well . |
| 19 | It does not begin as a story of the complaining of the people like the others we have looked at so far . |
| 20 | Before we turn to that material we must look at the course the narrative has taken since the beginning of Genesis , reminding ourselves yet again of familiar events , and skimming through areas we have not looked at so far . |
| 21 | All the architectural sculpture we have looked at so far is , like the buildings it adorned , in limestone ( sandstone at Foce del Sele ) . |
| 22 | The buildings we have looked at so far have all been ‘ Doric ’ , the order ( style ) evolved for temples in mainland and western Greece ( above , p. 15 ) . |
| 23 | To what extent , however , can the principles that we have looked at so far help us in designing an organisational structure ? |
| 24 | The plot of the Miller 's Tale is , however , a complex one , more complex that either of the English fabliaux we have looked at so far in this book , and unsurpassed in complexity amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 25 | It constitutes the best evidence we have come across so far that training in which the critical stimuli become linked to different events generates a unique source of transfer to further discrimination learning . |
| 26 | I was astonished by the power with which my German crashed out of me , as if in millennial anger at having been silenced for so long . |
| 27 | But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long . |
| 28 | His wife Jennifer said : ‘ He is finding he can do things he has n't done for so long . |
| 29 | Were he to refuse them , as he has done for so long , he would do himself , as well as the public , a grave disservice . ’ |
| 30 | I had not prayed for so long I did n't know what to say . |