Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 2 | Do not make unnecessarily long calls as they are wasteful . |
| 3 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 4 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 5 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 6 | They do n't take very long to come . |
| 7 | because kidney do n't take as long to cook |
| 8 | Do n't take too long then cos that water 's pretty cold quick then have you eaten that all up Charlotte ? |
| 9 | The beauty of small lightweight expeditions is that they do n't take that long . |
| 10 | Mind you , I do n't get very long to do it in . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't have much longer to wait . ’ |
| 12 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
| 13 | Oh I have n't got that long to make them , yet am I ? |
| 14 | But if you 're sixty five you have n't got much longer to go have you ? |