Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 2 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 3 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 4 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 5 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 6 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 7 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 8 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 9 | It 's so long since I had people to dinner . |
| 10 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 12 | It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once . |
| 13 | But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward . |
| 14 | A woman laughed , a carefree tinkling laugh and Emily paused in wonder , it seemed so long since she had felt like laughing . |
| 15 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 16 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 17 | It 's so long since she has seen him . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 20 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 22 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 23 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 24 | Ailing animals , so long as they have a solvent owner in two , are our bread and butter . |
| 25 | So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 27 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 28 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing is enough , so long as we have no hand in government . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |