Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the LSIs Princess Beatrix and Queen Emma with 1 and 6 Commandos had ‘ crept along the north coast of Spain undetected ’ in their disguise as Spanish merchantmen , the LCAs came in to find long and heavy Atlantic swells pounding a bar across the target beaches in the river Ardour estuary . |
| 2 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 3 | He also wrote some incidental theatre music for a play by Gebler , Thamos , König in Ägypten ( Thamos , King of Egypt ) , which , however , did not remain long in the repertory . |
| 4 | It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over . |
| 5 | But the spirit of goodwill did not last long and Gaze was soon claiming that Cook was copying his ideas . |
| 6 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 7 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
| 8 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 9 | They did not have long to wait . |
| 10 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 11 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 12 | A factor to be considered was that the leases were short term and therefore often did not have long to run by the year end ; this reduced the difference between a valuation with vacant possession and one with a tenant in occupation . |
| 13 | Sadly , he did not have long to bask in the glory of that epic flight , he was killed while delivering a Vickers Viking in France . |
| 14 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 15 | We did not have long to wait . |
| 16 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 17 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 18 | To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful . |
| 19 | He did not have long to wait , though it seemed an age to him . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid so , but it probably did n't last long and he may not have cried out . |
| 21 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 22 | They did n't stay long and they were very polite . |
| 23 | Did n't stay long but I expect they 'll be back . |
| 24 | and he did n't stay long and he did n't , he , he did look terrible , he did really |
| 25 | Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live . |
| 26 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 27 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 28 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 29 | If I did n't have long hair , everyone would think I was a boy . |
| 30 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |