Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may suffer long delays in reaching hospital and are likely to be treated by junior doctors , says a survey of 15,000 victims , carried out at 33 hospitals . |
| 2 | The warriors always accompany them when they must travel long distances to find green grass . |
| 3 | They must have long memories , Mungo thought , lying here in permanent dusk . |
| 4 | But they say they 'll think long and hard before they deciding whether or not to accept the offer . |
| 5 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 6 | Without ACET 's practical support at home they could spend long periods of time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 7 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 8 | They would take long breaks , and would sometimes work slowly , leaving components in vats for longer than necessary . |
| 9 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 10 | But but they looked wild because they would have long hair beards a and and all oh my word they were wild looking but er . |
| 11 | They can survive long periods of drought encased in mud , until the next rainy season . |