Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel held me together for so long . |
| 2 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact he held me up for so long I 'm now wondering if it was a deliberate act on his part . ’ |
| 4 | When you hold something back for so long it 's always harder . |
| 5 | After you 'd stuck it out for so long , why did you leave ? ’ |
| 6 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 7 | ‘ I was equally unhappy — how could we have let our pride and injured dignity keep us apart for so long ? |