Example sentences of "long [subord] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 2 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 3 | This fact was in my consciousness , and unconscious , long before I could understand the explanation for this state of affairs . |
| 4 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 5 | Long before he could goad the aircraft to anywhere near its optimum ceiling , Vologsky would be frozen , evacuated or crushed to death . |
| 6 | What need had he , John-William Dallam , for a grandson , he thought grimly , when he would be dead and gone , by the look of things , long before he could teach the little chap how to run the mill ? |
| 7 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 8 | Christina hoped it would n't be too long before she could make her escape . |
| 9 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 10 | Many directors continued in office long after they could hope to participate effectively . |
| 11 | ( He was in every respect a most economical man , and , like many of his generation , continued to think of taxis as an expensive luxury long after he could easily afford them . ) |
| 12 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 13 | We waited in the safety of the cellar for as long as we could , but there was no ‘ All Clear . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That was believed important , for with the Enchantment useless , we knew that we had to keep the Wolfline alive for as long as we could . |
| 15 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 16 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 17 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 18 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 19 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 20 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 21 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 22 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 23 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 24 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 25 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 26 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 27 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 28 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 29 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 30 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |