Example sentences of "not [verb] long [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thirty-five , he is , and he 's just been told he 's not got long to live .
2 She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it .
3 It appears that we may not have long to go .
4 If something like that did not happen soon , Robert thought , she might well not have long to live .
5 A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count .
6 They did not have long to wait .
7 EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait .
8 She did not have long to wait .
9 She did not have long to wait .
10 In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait .
11 We did not have long to wait .
12 He did not have long to wait for his answer .
13 To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful .
14 He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words .
15 He did not have long to wait , though it seemed an age to him .
16 Sadly , he did not have long to bask in the glory of that epic flight , he was killed while delivering a Vickers Viking in France .
17 Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’
18 ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti .
19 A factor to be considered was that the leases were short term and therefore often did not have long to run by the year end ; this reduced the difference between a valuation with vacant possession and one with a tenant in occupation .
20 She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case .
21 ‘ I ca n't wait long to have you warm and clinging in my arms — and mine ! ’
22 I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly .
23 Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live .
24 I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling .
25 Helmut Bradl has yet to win his first GP but he surely does n't have long to wait .
26 She would n't have long to wait .
27 He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day .
28 She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight .
29 We did n't have long to wait .
30 Well , they would n't have long to wait , now , but they had a surprise or two to come .
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