Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 2 | Now the first step was from as I said earlier , I had stayed too long at I thought . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've waited so long to hear you say you found me attractive , my darling ! |
| 4 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 5 | Think I 've got quite long arms for a short body . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I have waited so long to see you , ’ said Babushka . |
| 7 | I have to know how long she 's likely to be out of commission . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 9 | As to whether you 've got much longer on that or not . |
| 10 | Does n't seem you 've got too long once you 've finished . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 14 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 15 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 16 | She had spoken too long to pretend any longer to be asleep , and so she twisted and touched Rosa 's back , softly , with a hand on her shoulder to make her face her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You have lived so long in your fortress that you have forgotten , even if you ever knew . |
| 19 | You do n't want to lose what you have worked so long to achieve , so beware of hard-sell techniques . |
| 20 | walks down about eight o'clock , talk about long legs , she 's got really long legs right , this one . |
| 21 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 22 | Well look how we get do n't we , when er we 've gone too long with shower of rain |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 24 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 25 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 26 | Erm , or they stop , the current speaker stops thinking that somebody might want to join in , or the erm , spea current speaker chooses the next one , but the person they choose takes so long to actually respond , the current speaker carries on , because he thinks they 're not going to say anything . |
| 27 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 28 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 29 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 30 | It has taken too long to persuade the police that racial attacks even exist for the press to adopt some absurd pretence to being colour-blind now . |