Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 2 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 3 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 4 | We used them long ago . |
| 5 | You 've had a bad experience , but it 's one that happens to both men and women and you should have forgotten it long ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I told you long ago I was n't good enough for you . |
| 7 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
| 8 | Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide . |
| 9 | I know you ca n't simply kill him , even with a seeming accident , or you and Farquhar would have done it long since . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd have done it long ago . |
| 11 | I ought to have done it long ago . |
| 12 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |
| 13 | The Collector said that he had sold them long ago . |
| 14 | When his dinner arrived from the trattoria — he had told her long ago he preferred their food to hers which suited her perfectly well — it was eight minutes late . |
| 15 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 16 | She should have sold it long ago . " |
| 17 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 18 | Last year I decided to grow it long again . |
| 19 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 20 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 21 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 22 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 23 | She had evaded it long enough … |
| 24 | Cocaine debts , he said — though he 'd kicked it long ago . |
| 25 | She was barely seventeen , the youngest of the Three Musketeers , as they had styled themselves long ago ; yet in everything except appearance she might have been at least ten years older . |
| 26 | I loved you long ago . |
| 27 | That wo n't take him long though |
| 28 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 29 | She had not known him long enough to become accustomed to the impact of his looks , but she felt confident she could hide any extra fluttering of the pulse which he gave her . |
| 30 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |