Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it is not in the interest of patients to wait so long to see a consultant . |
| 2 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 3 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 4 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , why wait so long to do it . |
| 6 | Two weeks seemed so long to begin with , but there was so much to do . |
| 7 | Oh I have n't got that long to make them , yet am I ? |
| 8 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Lowell had had too long to think and his thoughts were tortuous . |
| 10 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 11 | or the speaker who 's speaking , selects the next speaker by saying , did n't you think , or whatever , but the person they 've chosen takes so long to answer , that the current speaker just carries on |
| 12 | It is not worthwhile to permanently masquerade as the dominant strategy type , because it takes so long to acquire such a reputation . |
| 13 | It takes so , it takes so long to do everything you see . |
| 14 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 15 | It takes so long to get off ! |
| 16 | Whereabouts have they gone ? takes so long to get there so I mean . |
| 17 | Despite being utterly inevitable , our hero 's hesitant romance with the camp nurse takes painfully long to blossom . |
| 18 | They looked pretty good — all colourful and that , but I did n't stop too long to watch them . |
| 19 | ‘ But if it takes that long to sort things out I 'd like to be playing for Sunderland . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Mr Hockney said , ‘ it takes that long to reach ecstasy . ’ |
| 21 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is so slow . |
| 22 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is slow . |
| 23 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 24 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 25 | it takes too long to follow a human birth cohort through life — the information is of little interest at the end of such an exercise |
| 26 | Traditionally some vendors oppose asset sales on the basis that it takes too long to obtain the landlord 's consent and the long delay between exchange and completion causes uncertainty for the business . |
| 27 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 28 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 29 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 30 | It can take so long to get one as well ! |