Example sentences of "long [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 2 | Eventually it may be so long that it reaches the other side of the gap and becomes entangled in a leaf or a twig . |
| 3 | She had lived in Paris so long that she had the appearance of a true Parisienne with her neatly bobbed hair , her brogues and long cigarette holder , inhaling the smoke as though she wanted it to reach her toes . |
| 4 | When her arms and legs grow so long that she wears the rabbit 's house like a wooden dress , her performance is magic . |
| 5 | It 's only five minutes long but it saves the day . |
| 6 | Because it 's , it 's a service for everyone , as long as everybody gets the same |
| 7 | The trainees ' responses , with guidance , may provide enough sound material for discussion as long as they cover the main points of the text . |
| 8 | On Vadinamia secrets are kept , and visitors are left strictly alone as long as they keep the peace . |
| 9 | As long they , as long as they win the league I do I do n't mind . |
| 10 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 11 | As long as they passed the necessary assessments for each course , they would get their degree at the end of three years . |
| 12 | It implies , of course , that as long as they have the right kind of causal relations , other machines , apart from brains , can possess mentality ; and it also implies that the study of artificial intelligence and computational modelling is the royal road to understanding mentality . |
| 13 | The standards today give preference to a rich red with white lineback , tail and underline , though yellow dun , plum and red-eared white ( with or without red , dun or plum on their sides ) are acceptable as long as they have the white finching . |
| 14 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 15 | Well we all see the other tenner but that do n't make any difference , as long as we got the main . |
| 16 | ‘ As long as we follow the plan we are provided with there are no problems , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Yes , as long as we get the insurance . |
| 18 | ‘ Tony 's all right about drivin' the lorry as long as we load the stuff ourselves . |
| 19 | Indeed , we can use different scaling factors for different pieces of data , as long as we align the binary points appropriately when performing arithmetic . |
| 20 | I think it can , as long as we realise the inadequacy of the simple linguistic model of communication ( addresser-message-addressee ) not only to literary discourse , but to any discourse . |
| 21 | Yet clearly this is true only as long as we leave the judging subject out of the picture . |
| 22 | And it wo n't , as long as we do the job and keep security . |
| 23 | And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ . |
| 24 | Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score . |
| 25 | As far as the private language argument is concerned , foundationalism is still possible as long as it avoids the traditional view that epistemology is the enterprise of starting from one 's own case and building on that . |
| 26 | As long as it takes the child to cease movement . |
| 27 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 28 | These claims did not affect CSM 's duty to recommend the granting of a licence anyway , as long as it considered the drug safe and effective . |
| 29 | However , he did agree that there should be an international authority , as long as it included the USA . |
| 30 | It did n't have to be for one slot , it did n't have to be in a particular form , it could be anything as long as it used the medium for visual ends . |