Example sentences of "[vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 2 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 3 | Cos his hair 's got so long , it 's longer than mine . |
| 4 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 5 | worn so long that the smell |
| 6 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 7 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 8 | In the years which followed , some of his ships ( which belonged to the king personally ) were sold to repay his debts ; others were left so long that they eventually rotted . |
| 9 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 10 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 11 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 12 | Thank you for your letter of 19 May and I apologise for having taken so long to reply . |
| 13 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 14 | Those X-rays , that had taken so long to photograph , that lengthy session when I had got so friendly with the big machine , had so far resulted in nothing . |
| 15 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 16 | Why , in spite of all these factors , has an increase in population taken so long to achieve ? |
| 17 | So , why has the PC taken so long to get to grips with the market and how is it faring today , some two years after the phrase ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined . |
| 18 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 19 | Babushka had taken so long to clean her cabin that it was morning and the star no longer shone in the sky . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 21 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 22 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 23 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 24 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 25 | Why has it taken so long to bring interconnection back on to the agenda ? |
| 26 | I fed a CD of Hugh Masekela into the machine and fought back the urge to get my trumpet out and play along , ruminating on the injustice of a world that had taken so long to discover him . |
| 27 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 28 | Yeah why 's , why 's it taken so long for Friends Provident to get round to doing this ? |
| 29 | I 'm sorry that it 's taken so long . |
| 30 | But the final reconciliation has taken so long . |