Example sentences of "long [adv] to know " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 3 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know how it works . |
| 5 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 6 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 7 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 8 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 9 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 10 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 11 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 12 | Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire . |
| 13 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |
| 14 | I 've lived here long enough to know . |
| 15 | He could n't string Fly 's presence and his doubts together long enough to know what one had to do with the other . |
| 16 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 17 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 18 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 19 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 20 | Because I 've been watching the front of your house long enough to know . |
| 21 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 22 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 23 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 24 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 25 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know the colours of the underground , darling . ’ |
| 27 | Frances had been married to an actor long enough to know what she was talking about . |
| 28 | She had been a scientist long enough to know this is , in practice , how the world works . |
| 29 | ‘ Long enough to know my own worth , ’ Gina retorted , irritated by the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
| 30 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |