Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 've pissed around with the decision for so long . ’ |
| 2 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 3 | And really cheesed off about being left out of the action for so long . |
| 4 | It makes me feel a bit funny being in the dark for so long . |
| 5 | I had no idea he 'd been kept in the dark for so long . |
| 6 | Malachi clucked his tongue , shook the reins and the mare , happy to be moving again after standing in the cold for so long , trotted briskly away . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems terrible now , David , to think that you 've taken the blame for so long for something you did n't do . |
| 8 | ’ The Colonel and his two juniors stood listening for an intense half minute until they all three felt uneasy holding the pose for so long . |
| 9 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 10 | Even the pools and betting organisations , which have attacked the lottery for so long , now say they would like to run it . |
| 11 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 12 | And I 'm intrigued , I must confess , about what kept you from the delights of the flesh for so long , Caroline — since , once initiated , you showed a remarkable talent for sensual enjoyment . ’ |
| 13 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |
| 14 | You do have to go into the theatre for so long I think |
| 15 | You do n't have to go into the theatre for so long I think . |
| 16 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 17 | He was experiencing something utterly new for him : his first controlled passage into a geistzone under the guidance of an oolerinnen ; his first safe transit of the threshold for so long guarded by the bone , wood and bird-wing magic of the shaman . |
| 18 | Barry has been the lifeblood for so long . ’ |
| 19 | It 's been on the cards for so long I think everyone 's had enough . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves whether the notion of treatment by opposites , which has held the stage for so long , is indeed the false path that Hahnemann considered it to be . |
| 21 | I have added a further £25 because I have appreciated holding on to the material for so long . |