Example sentences of "[prep] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not when I wondered about so much as where ? ’ |
| 2 | PAMELA : Dearest sir , let me beg that no act of unkindness for my sake pass between so worthy and so near relations . |
| 3 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 4 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 5 | Maybe she had been locked in her self-imposed prison for so long that now she was unable to control herself at all . |
| 6 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 7 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 8 | Probably the most important thing about George is why he continued to travel with Lennie for so long and why he needed him . |
| 9 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |
| 12 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |
| 13 | Her large eyes were fixed on him , and she wished that she could go away and leave him in peace when he had laboured for so long and so hard . |
| 14 | More sensitive contemporary artists know they belong to a generation which can not produce imagery in this way any longer ; on the evidence of many current shows , young male artists appear to have ceded the territory which they occupied for so long and now find themselves — where ? — in a nowhere land where they are no longer the wielder of the language , the focus of identification , the dynamic of meaning , the authoritative producer of shared values . |
| 15 | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton . |
| 16 | You ran it for so long and then |
| 17 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 18 | you sweat a lot and you 're supposedly meant to feel good for so long and then it 's meant to wear off and there 's meant to be no hangover effects or nothing and that 's why it 's a designer drug and that 's why it you know , it 's supposed to be so good . |
| 19 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 20 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 21 | This book included the 1985/86 season but I did n't buy the updated version which I think was available a year of so back as so much of the information is duplicate . |
| 22 | I think it 's their attitude because with Mr Price we get away with so much and then he says , no , and we have a real good old time . |
| 23 | With so powerful and so complete an equipment as the Holy Spirit , the Christian has every reason for peace and joy in believing . |
| 24 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 25 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 26 | Oblivious to us swanning by , they show no emotions , unlike me , all full of excitement at so many and so close . |