Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] longer [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong .
2 I knew there was no hope at all of my finding lodgings for Aunt Louise , and put the letter aside ; only when bedtime came could I no longer hide from myself its implications .
3 I no longer knew which was north .
4 I no longer knew myself .
5 In addition , I no longer saw any of my old friends while I was up in London and my Hampstead flat felt rather empty without them .
6 I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement .
7 I no longer saw any warmth in numbers .
8 I no longer know what I wanted , I said .
9 I no longer know what 's wrong with me .
10 The Aten was clear ; but now I no longer know .
11 Now I no longer know where I am . ’
12 If I address you collectively , it is because I no longer know who to address individually .
13 I no longer know who my friends are within the family .
14 I no longer know even if I have any friends .
15 Secretly he invited me to stay and help him in Blefuscu , but I no longer believed in the promises of kings or their officials , so I politely refused .
16 I no longer believed in it anyway .
17 I no longer retain fish for such long periods .
18 I no longer count on the Serbian opposition .
19 I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) .
20 I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre .
21 I no longer take any interest in the company , nor , although co-founder , do I take any responsibility for the success or failure of present or future coaching programmes , standards of coaching or the selection of coaches ( Teaching Professionals ) at Sutton Junior Tennis Centre .
22 I no longer lash out at my husband and the children .
23 I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever .
24 I no longer had an erection .
25 I could not go inside B.P. , as I no longer had a security pass .
26 ‘ I cried a lot coming out of my teens , ’ says Charlotte , now 22 , ‘ because I realised that I no longer had an excuse to play out the role of mother 's beloved charge .
27 I no longer had cravings for sweet or spicy food .
28 I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured .
29 It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ .
30 Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her .
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