Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has it for so long . |
| 2 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 3 | I think it 's because I have n't done it for so long |
| 4 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 5 | Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night . |
| 6 | So erm now I 've talked you for so long that I 've not got time to play this bit about the werewolves at Retford you see |
| 7 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 8 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 9 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 10 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 11 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |
| 12 | Yeah , I guess you can afford me for that long . |
| 13 | Well it is quite fine , I mean it do does make your eyes ache if you do it for too long . |
| 14 | If you leave it for so long though |
| 15 | They did n't , they di they were n't watching them for very long at all . |
| 16 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 17 | You ran it for so long and then |