Example sentences of "long [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed it would be good practice for later ; Margaret said it took her twice as long to shop with her three month-old child , Tom , because everyone looked into the pram and talked to him . |
| 2 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 3 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 4 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 6 | The Armenians — as the Palestinians have often told them — waited too long to fight for their nation . |
| 7 | I must apologise for taking so long to respond to your offer of a Village Sports Information Pack . |
| 8 | Long to reign over us ? |
| 9 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 10 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |