Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Country could not detain me long . |
| 2 | Either way , however , the issue need not detain us long . |
| 3 | But he would not keep her long . |
| 4 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 5 | She did not keep him long . |
| 6 | ‘ We will not keep you long . |
| 7 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 8 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 9 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 10 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 11 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 12 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 13 | It did not take him long . |
| 14 | Summers does attempt to list his subject 's achievements ; it does not take him long . |
| 15 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 16 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 17 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 18 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll not leave you long . ’ |
| 20 | Her friend Abraham Goldsmid arranged a loan , but it did not last her long . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | I wo n't keep her long , miss , just to sort of … to reassure her , like , that I 'm back . |
| 23 | ‘ I sha n't keep you long , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ I wo n't keep you long , Father . |
| 25 | ‘ Wo n't keep you long , ’ said Joe . |
| 26 | ‘ My very good friends , ’ he commenced , ‘ I wo n't keep you long . |
| 27 | I only bite them cos I do n't like them long . |
| 28 | You do n't like it long over your ear . |
| 29 | It did n't take them long to reach Kenilworth . |
| 30 | It does n't take them long at all to get in the outskirts of London , it 's weaving your way |