Example sentences of "so [adj] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been so afraid for so long that you 'd never care for me …
2 You should never have been so eager to pay so much for so poor a privilege . ’
3 Did you ever think it was unfair that you had to work so hard for so little money ?
4 ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted .
5 No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way .
6 These heavily tattooed men , now unemployed civilians , were so drunk for so long that they could barely talk or even sit up .
7 Above all in religion , one would think , when religion is so potent for how human beings conceive the world , it is important that there be no such bias .
8 No harm in that : pedestrian documentation is what there is a call for — Pound himself , and his admirers emulating him , have been so sprightly for so long that they have persuaded people they , and he , can not be in earnest .
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