Example sentences of "[pron] long [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 6 | Plenty long enough to discover whether you find it intolerable to live with her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 10 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 11 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 12 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 13 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 16 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |