Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , I mean for so long now we 've done it very much on personal effort . |
| 2 | And I think for too long , we 've listened to the libertarians who want to think of the rights of the criminal all the time , and er , and do n't worry too much about the victim . |
| 3 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 4 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |
| 5 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 6 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 7 | More sensitive contemporary artists know they belong to a generation which can not produce imagery in this way any longer ; on the evidence of many current shows , young male artists appear to have ceded the territory which they occupied for so long and now find themselves — where ? — in a nowhere land where they are no longer the wielder of the language , the focus of identification , the dynamic of meaning , the authoritative producer of shared values . |
| 8 | Erm Why did he work for so long ? |