Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 2 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 3 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 4 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 5 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 6 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 7 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 8 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 9 | Letting Baptiste in where the two of them had reigned together for so long . |
| 10 | Spring had really arrived now and it seemed very exciting to Colin , who had lived indoors for so long . |
| 11 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 12 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |