Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife Martina came here to Woodbrook not long ago . |
| 2 | Desperate in his anxiety to leave Bristol , almost any available house now seemed acceptable to Coleridge so long as it was near Tom Poole . |
| 3 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 4 | Here is an extract from such a letter , written in 1863 by Charlie Thomson , who had gone to Australia not long before to make his fortune : |
| 5 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 6 | What connection could there possibly be between him and what happened to Roland so long ago ? ’ |
| 7 | The evidence that this fear existed is to be found in a letter which Pope Alexander II sent to Lanfranc not long after his arrival in England . |