Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 2 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 3 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |
| 5 | Additionally , a more flexible attitude by social services to enable the young person without fully satisfactory living arrangements to go to , to stay on as long as necessary at the home , would be preferable to sticking rigidly to a somewhat arbitrary age cut-off time . |
| 6 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 7 | At Garrigues , most of us tried to hold out as long as possible , preferring constipation to the risks of having a crap . |
| 8 | Well erm you kept it out as long as possible but the weather spoilt it and the more you turned it , the bla blacker it came . |
| 9 | The one thing that seems to be doing now is to string it out as long as possible . |
| 10 | Exporters , on the other hand , will hold back as long as possible before shipping their exports : if the rate does fall , they will earn more sterling per dollar 's worth of exports . |
| 11 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 12 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 13 | But do n't 'ang about too long because I 've 'ad that Nottingham Forest on the blower . |