Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [Wh adv] long [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 2 | Once he looked at his watch to see how long it would be before he was relieved . |
| 3 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 4 | The date has obvious value if the story is a topical one but it also s the journalist to check how long he or she has held material . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 6 | Rain worried how long she would bear the bruises , whether it would still be cold enough in London for her to wear high-necked sweaters when she got back . |
| 7 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 8 | He rang the TV licensing office in Bristol to check how long it would take to get the new licence and he was told he must turn his TV off for up to three weeks until the cheque was cleared . |
| 9 | Veteran Whitney observers wonder how long it will be before the millionaires on the Whitney board of trustees tire of this trend . |
| 10 | There was no need to ask how long he had been there ; the intense quality of his stance , his expression , made it plain he had overheard . |
| 11 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |
| 12 | Duncan wondered how long he would last in London or New York traffic . |
| 13 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 14 | Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there . |
| 15 | and also , erm , she says I 've , I have n't got this awful sort of very sore , blown-out feeling , you know , and , and , and that has left her , so you see , it , i I mean God knows how long she 's had this chronic infection ! |
| 16 | God knows how long he lay there . |
| 17 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 18 | Having drawn the finished width of the triangle decide how long you want it to be |
| 19 | Er , Councillor said how long he he 's known er er and I think he said he also got him into the the Labour Party on the first meeting on their early meeting . |
| 20 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 21 | Its own experience indicates how long it takes to build a robust usable operating system . |
| 22 | The SPF number indicates how long you can stay in the sun without burning by simply multiplying your natural protection time . |
| 23 | ‘ Did the doctor say how long I must lie in my bed ? ’ he asked . |
| 24 | She had on her housecoat , which offered a fair display of bosom , and Wycliffe wondered how long it would be before she found a successor for the undertaker . |
| 25 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 26 | You do n't have to record people 's brainwaves in order to know how long they sleep . |
| 27 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 28 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 29 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |