Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe I took too long to prepare for each jump . |
| 2 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 3 | ‘ I had very long hair when Verity and the others first saw me , down below my shoulders , very thick and very curly . |
| 4 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 5 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 6 | That 's why I take so long over it . |
| 7 | Some people probably think I take too long to decide such matters , but I can demonstrate to them that sometimes by giving people a reasonable length of time to adjust they come through with flying colours . |
| 8 | I thought Windows would allow printing to be carried out as a full background job , but I experience quite long delays while Word and Excel send their output to the Print Manager . |
| 9 | First impressions are of a bass which looks very long , with a full-size body , 24-fret neck , 34″ scale length helping to keep the low B-string commendably taut , and an elegantly-shaped five-peg headstock . |
| 10 | One of these tunnels , which seemed awesomely long , black and terrifying , was , with gumption and at such times as the brook was not in full spate , explorable . |
| 11 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 12 | Why d' ya take so long in I ca n't be prepared to do all that ? |
| 13 | I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time . |
| 14 | We have however created this sub-heading for those techniques which offer more long term distraction than those mentioned previously . |
| 15 | that 's what keeps it why its kept so long then , then he said that |
| 16 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 17 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 18 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 19 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |
| 20 | Aye , I think " till do , but the pleasure of considering I shall so entirely have her in my power is not a little disturbed by reflecting how terribly the poor creature will be shocked at finding that innocence betrayed she has so long and worthily defended . |
| 21 | Do you remember that long letter you wrote at Christmas ? |
| 22 | But would she have that long ? |
| 23 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 24 | However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live . |
| 25 | So I was down there watching The Yardbirds and the English bands that were starting , and one time there was this band — for some reason I was there early and watching the sound check — with this blond guy who had very long blond hair , and knee-length sort of sued , fringed , Sherwood Forest , Robin Hood-looking boots , playing a bit of sax on stage . |
| 26 | Yet the cancer patients , who had significantly longer mouth-to-anus transit times , were not obstructed clinically or radiologically and stool frequencies were similar in all groups . |
| 27 | If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress . |
| 28 | In general , unless you have very long and gracious windows , I think such windows look neater and let in more daylight if they are covered with blinds or shutters or even some sort of grill or trellis work . |
| 29 | We appreciated that long months of solitary on top of the awful treatment he 'd received before must have put incredible strains on him . |
| 30 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |