Example sentences of "long [conj] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | hmm , so that post office , I says to Billy I wo n't be long and I 'll do you some rice |
| 2 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 3 | This fact was in my consciousness , and unconscious , long before I could understand the explanation for this state of affairs . |
| 4 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've waited sixteen years to hear from my father and they can wait for as long as I can drag this thing out . |
| 6 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 7 | ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 9 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 10 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 11 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 12 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 13 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 14 | Its American equivalent , the New Yorker , has been read for its advertisements in this country for as long as I can remember . |
| 15 | The black tarred roof had been ‘ like that for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 16 | I have certainly been screaming with loneliness for as long as I can remember . |
| 17 | As for Uncle , he had suffered from rheumatism for as long as I can remember , so , all-in-all , we always had more work than we could really cope with . |
| 18 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 19 | They 've been yo-yoing between the First and Second Divisions for as long as I can remember — at the time of writing , they 're well on their way to the Premier League . |
| 20 | For as long as I can remember , I have been fascinated by the U.S.A. From childhood dreams of big cars , space rockets , Pacific coast and cowboys , America seemed to have it all . |
| 21 | I 've wanted him for as long as I can remember . " |
| 22 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 23 | Scully and Sons have had the job for as long as I can remember , not because they are any good but because they are ruddy cheap . |
| 24 | I 've been impotent for as long as I can remember . |
| 25 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 26 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 27 | Vango have been making strong , well constructed tents for as long as I can remember and the Odyssey 200 dome tent certainly lives up to Vango 's good name . |
| 28 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 29 | For as long as I can remember I have done and been interested in music . |
| 30 | This has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember because during the week , everyone in my family has a main meal in the evening and sandwiches at lunchtime . |