Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] long [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Labour stalwarts , patient people who had set their sights on achieving un-encumbered Labour rule however long it took , were distinctly unenthusiastic about such a prospect . |
| 2 | His obvious hunger made her wonder how long he had been up and about . |
| 3 | Mr Wishart opened the carriage door and asked a porter how long they had to wait . |
| 4 | No matter how long they had been unemployed , the Girls felt guilty when auditioning for other troupes . |
| 5 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 6 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 7 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 8 | No matter how long he lived in Paris , or how wild his life was , he retained a love for Eugenia and a sense of family honour that jibed awkwardly with the easy amorality of the crowd . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that such luck would fall his way again no matter how long he waited . |
| 10 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 11 | No matter how long it took , she said , those who were left in South Ronaldsay would work out shifts on the various farms . |
| 12 | Alone , I could hide my inability , force myself to concentrate and to finish any given piece of work to the best of my ability , no matter how long it took me . |
| 13 | This rather vague account satisfied and stimulated the interest of most people ; fieldworkers began asking interviewees how long they had lived in the area and moved on to discuss their general attitudes and background . |
| 14 | She had no idea how long they waited like that , with Mary O'Dell wiping the sweat from her face with a cool washcloth , speaking gently in her soft Irish singsong as if Ruth were a child , for by now her memories had blurred together ; faces swam into focus through waves of pain , then disappeared . |
| 15 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 16 | Robbie had no idea how long they had been stationary . |
| 17 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 18 | She had no idea how long he intended to keep her here . |
| 19 | She had no idea how long she had been there when a movement in the undergrowth made her look up . |
| 20 | She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being . |
| 21 | She had no idea how long it had taken her to cross the river . |
| 22 | His sleep , he knew at once , must have been unusually deep , for he had no clear idea how long it had lasted nor where for that matter he was . |
| 23 | She was innocent of the intimate ways of men and had no idea how long it took them to relinquish their needs . |
| 24 | I have no idea how long it lasted . |