Example sentences of "they [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 2 | Luckily for England , Miandad was not given the opportunity to haunt them much longer . |
| 3 | Good job we put the goats in then , they 'd have been cold I think if we 'd left them much longer outside . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure these two young people do n't want us tagging on to them any longer , eh ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I see now there 's no point in hiding them any longer . |
| 6 | Raybestos lost the war when their workers refused to believe them any longer . ’ |
| 7 | A number of wooden ships continued to be built without adequate shear bracing , however , and such ships got more leaky as they got older , until , in an age when most of the pumping was done by hand , it became uneconomic to run them any longer . |
| 8 | Not many growers offer them any longer as a separate classification , and there is a general tendency to lump a few — if any — with others in a rather cursory grouping as Old roses . |
| 9 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 10 | But he had himself confirmed them now , too blatantly for her to ignore them any longer . |
| 11 | As he was drawn towards the Eye the terror-struck Rincewind raised the box protectively , and at the same time heard the picture imp say , ‘ They 're about ripe now , ca n't hold them any longer . |
| 12 | But if you pare your officers to the bone , if you cut them any longer , you will not get a decent service from them , you will just have people in boxes with lids firmly placed on them and then where will the union be ? |
| 13 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
| 14 | The figures would be a shock to MPs and Department of Health officials — who had acknowledged that they not longer keep central statistics on closures — he added . |
| 15 | Middles were all right for Veronese , but today they no longer have a role . |
| 16 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 17 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 18 | Thanks to American backing , they no longer had to worry about the small size of the British market , the limitations of the native cinematic culture or their responsibility to show Britain on the screen . |
| 19 | Congressmen , relieved that they no longer have to shed their reputations in fighting over Nicaragua , are quite keen to find the $300m that is seen as an inaugural present for Mrs Violeta Chamorro on April 25th . |
| 20 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 21 | Many airlines are so confused or battered that they no longer have anything resembling a clear business strategy . |
| 22 | As to dreams , day dreams , not only do they no longer impose upon me an innocent belief , but they become less glorious , less real , less natural , and less frequent . |
| 23 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 24 | And the Duke made sure that they no longer gave employment in the studios to these conspirators . |
| 25 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 26 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |
| 27 | Many nuns and priests who have worked with the CEBs have found that members become much more self-confident , they no longer feel cowed by fate ( Montgomery 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Following the incident the couple put their Colorado home up for sale and returned to their native Norway , claiming that they no longer felt welcome in the USA . |
| 29 | Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way . |
| 30 | After this time , they too are prone to heart attacks because they no longer have the protection of oestrogen in their bodies . |