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Example sentences of "[pron] long [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She left me long ago , and I do n't know where she is .
2	‘ Oh , you should have brought her to me long before , long before , Alida .
3	My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking .
4	The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream .
5	We used them long ago .
6	The Collector said that he had sold them long ago .
7	To them , books first published years ago are just as fresh , attractive and exciting as they were when first published — even if booksellers and publishers tired of them long ago .
8	Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with .
9	Presumably , Mr. Tylee considered these had not outlived their useful life and if he kept them long enough , a buyer might come along .
10	No-one has been using them long enough to know .
11	Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held .
12	One duck , however , was n't a very serious mother — she would lay her eggs all right , but could n't be bothered to sit on them long enough for them to hatch .
13	It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness .
14	She 'd ignored them long enough , glaring at their dusty little windows on the bottom stair as she came in and left .
15	Take them long enough would n't it ?
16	It 's taking them long enough
17	‘ I long ago noted that to a doctor keeping confidences meant telling your patient nothing and his relatives everything .
18	Maybe he should have cauterized those aspects of himself long since .
19	The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place .
20	D. Stirling ( 30 000 people ) is a place which long ago was chosen as a position and a site for a town .
21	I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’
22	For example , rich zones which long ago destroyed their own glorious estate , now claim the poor world 's tropical kingdom as a legacy for all .
23	Plenty long enough to discover whether you find it intolerable to live with her .
24	‘ There 's a good boy — oh yes , that 's plenty long enough .
25	In view of this , one would expect the breed to have firmly established itself long ago .
26	She long ago learned that the pressure of fame and the goldfish bowl existence it brings can take a terrible toll .
27	‘ I told you long ago I was n't good enough for you .
28	‘ I would have kissed you long ago if I 'd known a simple kiss could have so miraculous an effect . ’
29	He mastered his rage , dropped his hand , said , his voice as indifferent as hers , but the feeling beneath it deep indeed , ‘ I should have thrashed sense into you long ago , Daughter , as I would have done had you been a boy .
30	I loved you long ago .