Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blew open those divisions , but did not stop the present Prime Minister saying , when he spoke as Chancellor in that debate : ’ I believe that they will vote for the consistency , courage and conviction with which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has led this country so successfully for so long . ’ |
| 2 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 3 | But only for so long . |
| 4 | They could keep up between four and five miles in each hour only for so long , for even strong and accustomed muscles tired . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) The justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for so long as was necessary . |
| 6 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 7 | Gabriel held me together for so long . |
| 8 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 9 | Letting Baptiste in where the two of them had reigned together for so long . |
| 10 | But the last thing she had expected was that John would take advantage of it , especially after so long an absence from her , and even more especially after the crisis they had endured and survived together these months past . |
| 11 | More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising ! |
| 12 | And why was Father away for so long ? |
| 13 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 14 | Will you open up to me and tell me what it is that 's made you hide your heart away for so long ? ’ |
| 15 | I do not like to be away for so long . ’ |
| 16 | Spring had really arrived now and it seemed very exciting to Colin , who had lived indoors for so long . |
| 17 | When we arrive home from France into the large village , Debenham where I live , it was really strange and felt really odd after not being home for so long . |
| 18 | Yeah and they have them there see and like after so long they come out and sell them . |
| 19 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 20 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 21 | It paves the way for George Bush to speak of a ‘ new world order ’ , while simultaneously launching the largest military operation since World War II to preserve the ‘ old world order ’ that has served he and his colleagues so well for so long . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 23 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 24 | Fires banked down so strongly for so long … |
| 25 | Both of them ( for different reasons ) were anxious about seeming to exclude the rest of the household , each of them still ( even after so long ) unsure of her claims on the other . |
| 26 | It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe . |
| 27 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 28 | I assure you they did it 's hard working down there for so long it |
| 29 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 30 | But do you seriously expect the same people to be there after so long ? |