Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felix bawled angrily , on his feet , with his arms swinging on a curve away from his body and looking abnormally long . |
| 2 | Banks borrow short and lend relatively long . |
| 3 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 4 | Reacting too slowly and taking too long to make a decision can also be hazardous . |
| 5 | The birth was so difficult and took so long that she was starved of oxygen and had to be delivered by emergency caesarian . |
| 6 | Then suddenly , the man on his other side , who was dressed as a hippy and had very long hair , said ‘ How boring ! ’ |
| 7 | But facing facts as they are now , it is unlikely that you will encounter many offers of wholemeal pasta and rice on the restaurant circuit ; they are considered too chewy for the ‘ average ’ palate and take too long to cook . |
| 8 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 9 | How can an athlete train so well , be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 10 | It 's unlikey that you 're lucky enough to own a Sinclair Harding clock — they 're so exclusive , and take so long to make that only seven hundred have been produced over the last twenty five years . |
| 11 | The leaves are arranged in a rosette , and have very long stalks . |