Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visitors did n't have long to wait for the opening goal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait . |
| 4 | But the spirit of goodwill did not last long and Gaze was soon claiming that Cook was copying his ideas . |
| 5 | CARTER have not worn long trousers since March 1989 . |
| 6 | presumably those horses do n't do long spells of that sort |
| 7 | This suggests that the mechanisms which constrain fetal growth to prevent maternal-fetal disproportion do not effect long term programming of cardiovascular disease . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Despite the designedly conciliatory Anglo-Scottish marriage , James had not remained long at peace with his wife 's brother . |