Example sentences of "[verb] so long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it is not in the interest of patients to wait so long to see a consultant . |
| 2 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 3 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 4 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , why wait so long to do it . |
| 6 | Two weeks seemed so long to begin with , but there was so much to do . |
| 7 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 8 | or the speaker who 's speaking , selects the next speaker by saying , did n't you think , or whatever , but the person they 've chosen takes so long to answer , that the current speaker just carries on |
| 9 | It is not worthwhile to permanently masquerade as the dominant strategy type , because it takes so long to acquire such a reputation . |
| 10 | It takes so , it takes so long to do everything you see . |
| 11 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 12 | It takes so long to get off ! |
| 13 | Whereabouts have they gone ? takes so long to get there so I mean . |
| 14 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 15 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 16 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 17 | It can take so long to get one as well ! |
| 18 | A pity it 'll take so long to check . |
| 19 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 20 | He talked about repetition in fin-de-siecle opera , necessary because audiences then took so long to grasp a musical point ; and about Debussy 's hasty orchestration of the work after years of private piano performance . |
| 21 | They took so long to repair the pipe that the ceiling was black and bits of plaster were falling off . |
| 22 | We speak of a revolution ; and yet this intellectual transformation took so long to accomplish that there is no straightforward parallel with a political revolution . |
| 23 | Stirling is not surprised the error took so long to find . |
| 24 | I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time . |
| 25 | Hooray it took so long to get that sorted as well . |
| 26 | The 36-year-old Lethal Weapon star took so long to change it that officials cancelled his certificate . |
| 27 | The simple reason that the PC took so long to catch up is a direct result of its design . |
| 28 | But he took so long to make his point , the Speaker intervened . |
| 29 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 30 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |