Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've fought how I feel about you for so long ; now I want to take you there , to put every one of them right . ’ |
| 2 | I 've lived on the moor with them for so long . |
| 3 | ‘ How my husband put up with you for so long I just do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ Darling , I 've been in love with you for so long , fighting it , hiding it from you … |
| 5 | ‘ It is upsetting for the cast having worked with her for so long . |
| 6 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 7 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 8 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 10 | I 've kept it bottled up inside me for so long . ’ |
| 11 | Shall I kiss you , Lissa , shall I pay homage to those ripe , exotic fruits you 've kept hidden from me for so long ? |
| 12 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 13 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 14 | I typed on to the telex : ‘ Darling John , It seems unbelievable that you have been away from us for so long . |
| 15 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 16 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 17 | I think that 's why I was on it for so long . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'm sure that after being monopolised by me for so long you 'll be anxious to return to your boyfriend . ’ |