Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 4 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 5 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 6 | She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window . |
| 7 | ‘ You have long enough to lose yourself in Fragonard 's world , Charlie . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 11 | The other snag , ironically , arises from the very success of the smallpox vaccination campaign — because , as a result , most of the population of the Third World is already immune to vaccinia and would n't allow it to flourish long enough to produce the hepatitis antigen . |
| 12 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 13 | Lord knows , it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He would have warmed to Eileen had he lived long enough to get to know her . |
| 16 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |