Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] long [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 2 | I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye . |
| 3 | She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window . |
| 4 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |
| 5 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 6 | Lord knows , it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there . |
| 7 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
| 8 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |