Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] [subord] she " in BNC.

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1 She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now .
2 She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’
3 She was always mine in so far as she was anyone 's , and she 's never been anyone 's and never will be anyone 's , you know .
4 She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement .
5 Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies .
6 The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly .
7 ( Emma 's first appearance ) ‘ In so far as she was beautiful , this beauty lay in her eyes : although they were brown , they would appear black because of her lashes … ’
8 In so far as she possibly can , she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves , without addition to their number .
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