Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens . |
| 2 | The visitors did n't have long to wait for the opening goal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait . |
| 5 | The pause before Nicola 's husband spoke again seemed long to Dexter . |
| 6 | But the spirit of goodwill did not last long and Gaze was soon claiming that Cook was copying his ideas . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 9 | CARTER have not worn long trousers since March 1989 . |
| 10 | Their riders had then to cover long distances on foot , leading their mounts . |
| 11 | presumably those horses do n't do long spells of that sort |
| 12 | This suggests that the mechanisms which constrain fetal growth to prevent maternal-fetal disproportion do not effect long term programming of cardiovascular disease . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite the designedly conciliatory Anglo-Scottish marriage , James had not remained long at peace with his wife 's brother . |