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go on board long enough to sort
"Never you have a fear but that I'll see she don't leave this station till you've had a chance to go on board long enough to sort out the coal-passers.
— from Off Santiago with Sampson by James Otis

got one burning long enough to see
" The churchman seized the matches, and, in his anxiety at what he had done, struck several before he got one burning long enough to see the unconscious man's face.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

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