Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | But if I want to hear the long , late-night groove on side two , I have to play the album . |
| 3 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 4 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 5 | Keep it simple , avoid jargon and if you have to give a long explanation , try to break it up . |
| 6 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 7 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 8 | If you want to live a long , long time in sturdy health you ca n't go wrong in forming the habit of long vigorous walking every day … until it becomes a habit as important to you as eating and sleeping . |
| 9 | Right , if we want to increase the long run output we may have to reduce short run output . |
| 10 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 11 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 12 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |