Example sentences of "it [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 4 | If you leave it for so long though |
| 5 | He has it for so long . |
| 6 | You ran it for so long and then |
| 7 | I think it 's because I have n't done it for so long |
| 8 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Well it is quite fine , I mean it do does make your eyes ache if you do it for too long . |
| 11 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |