Example sentences of "long for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had , whatever way , and all night long for all she knew , to amount to a pretty penny . |
| 2 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 3 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 4 | Why has it taken so long for this in his technique to be exposed ? |
| 5 | He went on : ‘ We 're going to have a jolly good time after waiting so long for this . ’ |
| 6 | I 've waited so long for this . ’ |
| 7 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 8 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 9 | ‘ It really was a long race , maybe too long for this circuit . |
| 10 | ‘ It really was a long race , maybe too long for this circuit . |
| 11 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 12 | It did n't take long for some bright spark to try out the Doom Diver Catapult in a battle . |
| 13 | Friedrich Bremer has waited long for another victim , and is eager to begin . |
| 14 | It takes so long for another type to convince the B t 's that it is z = 0 , that any long run benefit from this is outweighed by the cost , of acquiring such a reputation . |