Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Why d' ya take so long in I ca n't be prepared to do all that ? |
| 10 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 11 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do you remember that long letter you wrote at Christmas ? |
| 14 | But would she have that long ? |
| 15 | Why did you take so long to choose your book Charlotte ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We appreciated that long months of solitary on top of the awful treatment he 'd received before must have put incredible strains on him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He wants me to live as long as possible . |
| 21 | It must be a tribute to the resilience of these people that they lived so long and survived through it all . |
| 22 | Since his debut in 1984 , he has largely been cast in the role of workhorse for West Indies , his seemingly effortless , languid approach to the wicket enabling him to bowl fairly long spells , even in hot and humid conditions . |
| 23 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 24 | He enjoyed brushing it , even when she made him stand so long behind her chair that his arms ached and his eyelids started to droop . |
| 25 | They took so long to repair the pipe that the ceiling was black and bits of plaster were falling off . |
| 26 | It was pretty good for him to be noticed by me as I was far more impressed with WBA than Wolves — no wonder they signed Geoff Thomas , they play more long balls than C Palace ! |
| 27 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 28 | Well if they take as long to do it I mean good heavens there 's been one clanking manhole cover at Halam and it has taken them weeks to do it . |
| 29 | Conceptually brilliant they may be , but they take too long to get the hang of . |
| 30 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |