Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd been there so long , next thing was clipping on . |
| 2 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 3 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 4 | We 've been out so long that we 've made a name for ourselves , we got props [ respect ] . |
| 5 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |