Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Said Ted : ‘ I just want to live as long as possible so that the murderer can be found . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , it been gone too , stop breathing too long , yeah |
| 3 | The pockets and waistband take slightly longer to dry out completely . |
| 4 | Erm , or they stop , the current speaker stops thinking that somebody might want to join in , or the erm , spea current speaker chooses the next one , but the person they choose takes so long to actually respond , the current speaker carries on , because he thinks they 're not going to say anything . |
| 5 | Does n't seem you 've got too long once you 've finished . |
| 6 | Think I 've got quite long arms for a short body . |
| 7 | As to whether you 've got much longer on that or not . |
| 8 | Well look how we get do n't we , when er we 've gone too long with shower of rain |
| 9 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 11 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've waited so long to hear you say you found me attractive , my darling ! |
| 14 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 15 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 16 | But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs . |
| 17 | ( Opposite , bottom ) Many prey species have developed unusually long legs and strange forms of locomotion as refinements of their fleeing behaviour . |
| 18 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 19 | Studies have shown that long term success rates ( ie at one year follow up ) of 10–20% can be achieved [ 7 ] . |
| 20 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 21 | Erm a lot of us are bothered by eyebrows some of us have got really long coarse hair that grow in the eyebrows and we take those out as well . |
| 22 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 23 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 24 | Guatemala remains a terrible reminder of what Nicaraguans have fought so long and hard to replace . |
| 25 | You do n't want to lose what you have worked so long to achieve , so beware of hard-sell techniques . |
| 26 | And of course what Mr does not refer to in any of his submissions n is the need for new settlements in that area to be have to have very long access roads . |
| 27 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I have waited so long to see you , ’ said Babushka . |
| 29 | ‘ You have lived so long in your fortress that you have forgotten , even if you ever knew . |