Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] for so " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 2 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 4 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 5 | ‘ I played pretty well for so early in the tournament , ’ said Seles after handing the French girl her third successive first round defeat here . |
| 6 | I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned . |
| 7 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 8 | It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe . |
| 9 | All the while a dark suspicion was growing in Nora 's mind : a ringer that broke and ran dead straight for so many miles . |
| 10 | I think having I think having waited so patiently for so long that you can wait a little lo further . |
| 11 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 12 | I assure you they did it 's hard working down there for so long it |