Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 2 | Luckily for England , Miandad was not given the opportunity to haunt them much longer . |
| 3 | Good job we put the goats in then , they 'd have been cold I think if we 'd left them much longer outside . |
| 4 | And if I do that , how shall I any longer be the red ? ’ |
| 5 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 6 | But I no longer believe that myself . |
| 7 | as if now Goldberg is in the room with the glass I no longer exist . |
| 8 | I no longer know what I wanted , I said . |
| 9 | In addition , I no longer saw any of my old friends while I was up in London and my Hampstead flat felt rather empty without them . |
| 10 | I no longer took what the English said seriously . |
| 11 | I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever . |
| 12 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 13 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 14 | I no longer believe solely in figures . |
| 15 | I no longer need to work and she was delighted when I offered to care for the baby during the week . |
| 16 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 17 | She knew that in Paul 's presence she would be incapable of saying : ‘ I no longer want to be with him . ’ |
| 18 | I knew there was no hope at all of my finding lodgings for Aunt Louise , and put the letter aside ; only when bedtime came could I no longer hide from myself its implications . |
| 19 | At the end of the year I wrote telling him I no longer required it . ’ |
| 20 | Strangely enough I no longer feel especially weary . |
| 21 | I no longer had an erection . |
| 22 | I no longer know what 's wrong with me . |
| 23 | I no longer knew which was north . |
| 24 | Yet straightaway I knew that something had changed , since that distant Moscow meeting and our encounter three years ago in Switzerland : for some reason I no longer felt desire stirring for her . |
| 25 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 26 | I used to speak Danish , I no longer can , so I 'm going to have to address you in German — the language of my programme . |
| 27 | I could not go inside B.P. , as I no longer had a security pass . |
| 28 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 29 | The food and rest gave me back my strength and I no longer felt ill . |
| 30 | The danger had passed ; I no longer needed the overdrive . |