Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NADIA KARMALI , a 12-year-old exchange student from British Columbia , has not taken long to impress her teachers and fellow pupils at St Mary 's School , Melrose . |
| 2 | He 's got something malignant , cancer , and he has n't got long to live anyway . ’ |
| 3 | An expert on altitude sickness says he has n't got long to live . |
| 4 | A pity Nigel has n't got long curling eyelashes . |
| 5 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 6 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 7 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 8 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 9 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |
| 10 | As Fabia had suspected , the dog Azor did not take long to find . |
| 11 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 12 | Do not spend long making your decision . |
| 13 | Well that did n't last long did it ah ? |
| 14 | Well that did n't last long did it ? |
| 15 | that did n't last long did it ? |
| 16 | Our did n't stay long did he ? |
| 17 | It did n't take long to track down Kimberly . |
| 18 | It did n't take long to reach Pershore . |
| 19 | It did n't take long to set things up . |
| 20 | But Famlio did n't take long to see other possibilities , in the established traditional of what is ironically known as protection . |
| 21 | It did n't take long to see it would be useless . ’ |
| 22 | Well that perm did n't take long did it ? |
| 23 | it did n't take long did it ? |
| 24 | It did n't take long to get her under control . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Christ , ’ grumbled Yanto , ‘ that did n't take long to get around . |
| 26 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 27 | It stuck a bit halfway , since zippers always do , but it did n't take long to get an opening big enough for the nomes to climb down inside . |
| 28 | It did n't take long to get things sorted out . |
| 29 | Once you 'd confirmed my suspicions it did n't take long to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 30 | It did n't take long to get to Lori 's suite , but this time her knock took longer to be answered . |