Example sentences of "[verb] long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 2 | That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ? |
| 3 | This famous king lived long ago in Macedonia in northern Greece . |
| 4 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 5 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 6 | Burrows lived long enough to secure the appointment of Arnold Toynbee [ q.v. ] to the chair in 1919 . |
| 7 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
| 8 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 9 | ‘ I lived long enough in Berlin for that . |
| 10 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 11 | I realized long ago that the only thing he has in common with other men is the prick between his legs . |
| 12 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 13 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 14 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 15 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 16 | Nor had he to wait long there for the train running in connection with the sailing of the ‘ Iona ’ steamship from Greenock . |
| 17 | ‘ Naga ’ means ‘ wise serpent ’ , the title given long ago to those who had acquired great wisdom . |
| 18 | In John the Baptist s ministry you find the fulfilment of the prophecies made long ago that a messenger would come to prepare the way of the Lord . |
| 19 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |
| 20 | The VT is commonly non-sustained but sometimes persists long enough to provoke syncope , or even death if ventricular fibrillation supervenes . |
| 21 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 22 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 23 | Another text with allusions to Jewish ethical norms attributed to Phocylides was recognized long ago to be a Jewish forgery of the Hellenistic age . |
| 24 | But it sits long enough for me to point out the difference between the two species . |
| 25 | I have heard of a café near the Opera , where , if you sit long enough , they say you can see the whole world go by . |
| 26 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 27 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 28 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 29 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 30 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |