Example sentences of "[verb] for so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 2 | This makes up only about 2% of industry 's own spending on R&D , and in the past many of the DTI 's handouts have landed in the hands of the large firms which account for so much of industry 's total . |
| 3 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 4 | The king was astonished that he asked for so little , and readily agreed . |
| 5 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 6 | ‘ She stands for so much . |
| 7 | It may be , too , that the small independents , squeezed for so many years , are starting to fight back . |
| 8 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 9 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 10 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 11 | What do you think it is about that 's sort of helped this shop survive for so many years . |
| 12 | With so much data being reported for so many pollutants and with the news media and control agencies employing diverse terms to describe air quality , some degree of confusion to the public is inevitable . |
| 13 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 14 | In fact , it is simply realistic , since this happens for so many people . |
| 15 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 16 | ‘ It was important ’ , she says , ‘ to have more than one voice speak for so many sisters , and in differing ways ’ ( 1970 : xxx ) . |
| 17 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing … ? she gasped , still feeling shocked and disorientated by the sudden , totally unexpected appearance of the man she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 18 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 19 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 20 | Fire extinguishers may seem a good idea , but there are so many types to be used for so many different sorts of fires that I would be nervous of escalating a fire , rather than killing it , by using the wrong type of extinguisher . |
| 21 | Modha 's coloured wax casts of tongues are a more playful exploration of the idea of Babel : the same organ being used for so many different languages , resulting in so much misunderstanding . |
| 22 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 23 | I 've often wondered how chaps with 50 caps could keep themselves going for so many international commitments . |
| 24 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 25 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 26 | The land which they had loved and tended for so many generations — to survive off this land was the aim of their lives , the justification for all struggles . |
| 27 | Perhaps her very strengths , her enthusiasm and drive for so many causes , led to inadequate public recognition of her work . |
| 28 | The manner in which Gaveston and Despenser monopolized access to the king was deeply resented : when the king 's personal decision counted for so much , access to the king was the way to obtain grants and favours for a magnate and for his dependants . |
| 29 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 30 | 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 . |