Example sentences of "[vb base] long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It leads to SOLVING PROBLEMS If you listen long enough you will find things or ideas that you share . |
| 4 | If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it . |
| 5 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 6 | Her younger brother was sent by Teresa later in the day to say she would not be returning to a house where a dangerous lunatic lived and no one could expect her to — she would rather forfeit that week 's wages than wait long enough to give notice . |
| 7 | But if we wait long enough , perhaps thousands of years , Tit for Tat will eventually muster the numbers required to tip it over the knife-edge , and the population will flip . |
| 8 | If you wait long enough then when it finishes this large task everything will work as normal . |
| 9 | Maybe if I walk long enough I 'll get to Scotland and I can see Marie . |
| 10 | Could n't get the damned thing erect long enough . " |
| 11 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , if you resist long enough you may be able to lay down all sorts of conditions to which , if he 's so keen , he 'll have to agree . |
| 13 | The majority of elderly people are also , as already mentioned , female and continue long past retiring age to perform the tasks almost universal among women at all ages : domestic and other unpaid services for themselves and others , some older , some younger , some the same age as themselves . |
| 14 | There was one aspect of his life which had made him so — of which I had heard talk long before on some obscure wanderers ' grapevine . |
| 15 | ‘ MIPS and Sparc begat Power , which begat Alpha which will beget something new … none will dominate the open-systems market long enough for the critical mass of software needed for long-term success to develop … the future of RISC microprocessors in the open systems market is dead … |
| 16 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 17 | ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 19 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 20 | For instance , our own three-centre holidays may not visit a place you want to see , or stay long enough for all you want to do . |
| 21 | ‘ If you stay long enough you will look with suspicion on unfamiliar faces . ’ |
| 22 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 23 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 24 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 25 | I hope your fish live long enough to recover and that the dyes fade away . |
| 26 | ‘ If you live long enough . |
| 27 | Some , like our own ageing or the death of friends or loved ones , are inevitable for all of us who live long enough . |
| 28 | Live long enough , and up you go . ’ |
| 29 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 30 | I 've long since pledged my sword to any who would help rid this borough of the damned Daine . |