Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always paused for rather too long before answering a question or responding to a remark for she feared that if she answered hastily she would say something unseemly . |
| 2 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
| 3 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
| 4 | Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ? |
| 5 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 6 | ‘ But have I withstood my punishment for long enough now ? |
| 7 | Well , if I were to run the car backwards for long enough then obviously that would do it . |
| 8 | I do n't think the monkeys will be on for much longer then , a few moments |
| 9 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 10 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 11 | Death 's mercy has held off all too long , but now I swear to you this is ending . |
| 12 | Typically , the Government have had the courage to concede by implication that they have lost confidence in what they legislated for so confidently just a short time ago . |
| 13 | No one was ever left in Masailand for so long again . |
| 14 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 15 | The pre-occupations which have dominated debates at Westminster for so long no longer make sense . |
| 16 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 17 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 18 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 19 | got to keep your feet up for so long before |
| 20 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 21 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 22 | This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning . |
| 23 | And as this fizzy old dog bayed and barked into the night , I spared a tender thought for my project , my poor little project , which I had nursed in my head for so long now . |
| 24 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 25 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 26 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 27 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 28 | In the interests of maintaining the friendly atmosphere and camaraderie of crowd and players that has been the hallmark of rugby union above all sports for so very long , we must minimise the confrontational aspects of these occasions , whilst respecting and enjoying the traditions and pride of the individual countries involved . |
| 29 | One of the dangers of the position , however , is that it 's very easy to slip into full authority — which is a " con " that children can see through all too easily . |
| 30 | Were you surprised how soon you got into the RSC — and that you have now ended up after only just over a year and a half in the profession playing Juliet and Hermia ? |