Example sentences of "he [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 2 | He then makes the kind of silly gaffe — getting his hair cut while Air Force One sits at Los Angeles airport , closing down two runways — that will be the stuff of jokes about him for as long as he is in public life . |
| 3 | I 've wanted him for as long as I can remember . " |
| 4 | The femininity of Woman with its emphasis on the role of wife and mother , is vastly different from that of Cosmopolitan , where the feminine woman is encouraged to be adventurous in catching the most sexually desirable man , retaining him for as long as he is interesting , and getting a super job into the bargain . |
| 5 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 6 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 7 | She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière . |
| 8 | Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’ |
| 9 | From the sound of it my father could n't have spoken to him for very long , or he would have recognised his son 's voice . |
| 10 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 11 | He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th . |
| 12 | ‘ But you 'd better not see him for too long . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 15 | I have n't seen him for so long . |
| 16 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 17 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 22 | A High Court judge was told it was unlawful to jail him for so long . |