Example sentences of "he [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 2 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 3 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 4 | I have n't seen him for so long . |
| 5 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 6 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 9 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 10 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 11 | A High Court judge was told it was unlawful to jail him for so long . |
| 12 | He also feels bitter towards Joanna for putting him through so much : ‘ In one respect I feel sorry for her . |
| 13 | Information on individual cases is referred to him in so far as it might help him to frame proposals for orders and changes in the law . |