Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 2 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 3 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 4 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 5 | Cut off for so long from most western visitors , the wonderful and varied scenery and marvellous historic cities will surely make this country one of the most popular tourist destinations of all . |
| 6 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 7 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 8 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 9 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 10 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 11 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 12 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 13 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 14 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 15 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 16 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 17 | More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising ! |
| 18 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 19 | ‘ He has shown a lot of guts to get back after so long . |
| 20 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 21 | Letting Baptiste in where the two of them had reigned together for so long . |
| 22 | Spring had really arrived now and it seemed very exciting to Colin , who had lived indoors for so long . |
| 23 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 24 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 25 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 26 | Robyn 's voice quivered and she could feel the tears , held back for so long , welling up inside . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know why I held out for so long . ’ |