Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 2 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 3 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 4 | think well they 've had long enough now we 'll we 'll have a switch you know |
| 5 | Well they 've had long enough to do it ! |
| 6 | They had studied long hours , both of them , they had burned the midnight oil while munching their way through textbooks and qualifications , through overtime and late-night meetings . |
| 7 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 8 | Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo . |
| 9 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |