Example sentences of "long [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wear my hair long and I comb it forward to hide as much as possible of my face . |
| 2 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that . |
| 4 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 5 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 6 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
| 7 | ‘ It means you could n't have arrived in Seal Haven all that long before I found you . |
| 8 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 9 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 10 | I 'll wait all night if necessary so long as I know you 'll be coming . |
| 11 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 12 | By the end of the afternoon , after a few more pints , he gets involved in a Q&A challenge — he says he 'll answer any question , so long as I keep them coming . |
| 13 | So long as I keep it up I am still in charge of my own destiny . |
| 14 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 15 | So long as I love you , I would n't mind being poor , and I do n't want his money . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah my hair was that long when I had it cut . |