Example sentences of "[adv] long [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 3 | He would have withered inside long ago had there not been this to return to . |
| 4 | It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides . |
| 5 | ( At that time the lesbians involved in the organizations of the conferences had all long since made positive decisions to be child-free . ) |
| 6 | But the artistes had all long since departed , and smashed-up mechanical pianos cluttered the abandoned music-hall . |
| 7 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 8 | He could n't string Fly 's presence and his doubts together long enough to know what one had to do with the other . |
| 9 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 10 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 11 | And in a show that gave good old-fashioned value for money Miss Lee stopped singing only long enough to declare : ‘ Ah thank you so very very much , ’ and ‘ Ah 'm so very very glad to be here . ’ |
| 12 | She could not tell whether he also meant he would not be at the flat long , only long enough to collect his bag and take a taxi to whichever friend 's spare room he had negotiated to borrow . |
| 13 | Forward cyclic is applied only long enough to produce a slight nose down attitude in the model . |
| 14 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 15 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 16 | Although it took so long finally to dispose of the machinery and tanks , other material was removed from the incline during the 1920's as uses for it were found . |
| 17 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |
| 18 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 19 | Shifting from a position of criticism of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , public opinion has swung to the other extreme , of hero worship of Saddam Hussein , not so long ago viewed as an ally of India rather than of Pakistan . |
| 20 | Good humour being somewhat restored , I turned away to make the hot drink we had promised ourselves so long ago CRASH ! |
| 21 | Yet how could she possibly feel jealous over a man whom she had so long ago evicted from her heart ? |
| 22 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 23 | No , I , it 's an enormous sum I mean I do n't think anybody in the West is spending er as much as ten percent on armaments and er I heard a on television not so long ago saying that in eighty percent of their industry is on armaments . |
| 24 | I recall a commitment not so long ago to reduce the number or prisoners , yet the Home Secretary told us that there was an unexpected increase of 3,000 in the prison population . |
| 25 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 26 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 27 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 28 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 29 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 30 | The student switches on the tape recorder just long enough to record his utterance , then passes the microphone to another learner to continue the conversation . |