Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know I did n't stare that long . |
| 2 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 3 | No , she , she said that erm , did n't stay very long , but |
| 4 | Eh , cos he did n't reign that long . |
| 5 | They looked pretty good — all colourful and that , but I did n't stop too long to watch them . |
| 6 | And it did n't seem very long to the man anyway . |
| 7 | Did n't seem that long last time |
| 8 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 9 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 10 | to him , did n't take very long . |
| 11 | Erm I hope it did n't take too long to read our statement . |
| 12 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |