Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] longer [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 2 | Everyone had told her she could n't be in a better place , but they kept saying she must be patient a little while longer — and she did n't know how much longer she could bear it . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't worry about me , Charlie , ’ she said , wondering for how much longer she could stall around the subject without letting something slip and betraying her ignorance , and hoping that Charlie would give her some further clue . |
| 4 | Rachel stared at him and wondered how much longer she could hold her breath without dying . |
| 5 | Longing to see something green and to inhale fresh air , Vincent asked the doctor how much longer he would have to wait to be discharged . |
| 6 | Blake did n't know how much longer he would survive . |
| 7 | Wycliffe looked at the young man and wondered how much longer he could carry on . |
| 8 | He 's older than his years and I do n't know how much longer he can last . ’ |
| 9 | As for how much longer I 'll be here , who knows ? |
| 10 | ‘ How much longer I shall stay in it and not go out of it , who knows ! |
| 11 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 12 | I was somewhere in the middle , jog-trotting laboriously with the rest and wondering how much longer I could keep going . |
| 13 | If she does n't I do n't know how much longer I can carry on . |
| 14 | It does hurt so and I 'm not sure how much longer I can bear the pain . |