Example sentences of "[verb] so long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 2 | It must be a tribute to the resilience of these people that they lived so long and survived through it all . |
| 3 | When her arms and legs grow so long that she wears the rabbit 's house like a wooden dress , her performance is magic . |
| 4 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |
| 5 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 6 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 7 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 8 | You will say we have every comfort necessary to render so long and tedious a voyage as agreeable [ sic ] as it can be . |
| 9 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 10 | THE cast list of the real-life royal soap opera is now getting so long and so complicated that all except its most avid followers can be forgiven for losing track . |
| 11 | worn so long that the smell |
| 12 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 13 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 14 | Their problems are so deep and the solutions will take so long that it will hold back political and economic progress in western Europe if we insist that they are brought into the fold sooner rather than later . |
| 15 | It was as if a great machine had been left running so long that no one had noticed , or cared , that it was running down . |
| 16 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 17 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 18 | The filming took so long that had to remake the heap a couple of times and start again . |
| 19 | The birth was so difficult and took so long that she was starved of oxygen and had to be delivered by emergency caesarian . |
| 20 | Many of the ‘ real ’ sentences that were processed took so long and used up so much of the computational processing of the SUN system that full testing was not feasible . |
| 21 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 22 | In the years which followed , some of his ships ( which belonged to the king personally ) were sold to repay his debts ; others were left so long that they eventually rotted . |
| 23 | Guatemala remains a terrible reminder of what Nicaraguans have fought so long and hard to replace . |
| 24 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 25 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |
| 27 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 28 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 29 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 30 | The baby 's skin was a soft creamy white and her dark lashes so long and silky they defied credibility . |