Example sentences of "long [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 2 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 3 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't mean to stay that long cos I had a lot to do . |
| 5 | I wear my hair long and I comb it forward to hide as much as possible of my face . |
| 6 | But I wo n't be off for long because I 've to follow Marcus . ’ |
| 7 | But do n't 'ang about too long because I 've 'ad that Nottingham Forest on the blower . |
| 8 | How long till I get like her ? |
| 9 | It 's , perhaps it 's too long since I read Oliver Twist for me to remember it as clearly . |
| 10 | It 's so long since I had people to dinner . |
| 11 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 12 | It 's been that long since I played that game . |
| 13 | It 's been so long since I spent oh at least three quarters of a lunch break . |
| 14 | They 're not that dirty , it is n't long since I cleaned these you know . |
| 15 | There is great skill in choosing a site and this must I teach you , though it is long since I made a site . ’ |
| 16 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
| 17 | Oh , there are all manner of things I need , it is so long since I went shopping . |
| 18 | But it is so long since I went to a party , ’ she whispered . |
| 19 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 20 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 21 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 22 | ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that . |
| 23 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 24 | I heard about them long before I came to live here . |
| 25 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 26 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 27 | Long before I came to know north west Scotland I read an article in a yachting journal about sailing and climbing in the mountainous fiords of Norway . |
| 28 | It 's twenty years ago , long before I came here . |
| 29 | Erm , I fully support all the comments about the archive system , I have a membership ticket here , and I was a member of that system long before I came here . |
| 30 | I climbed it long before I knew anything of eponymous lists , and did so again recently . |