Example sentences of "[not/n't] long [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not long before they began to complain . |
| 2 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 3 | Maggie sat on the bed and fumed but it was not long before she started to smile . |
| 4 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 5 | Some of the secondary girls considered such goings on beneath their dignity but it was n't long before they began to take an interest and help out in the " Ox-farm " . |