Example sentences of "[adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder . |
| 2 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 3 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 4 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 5 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 6 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 7 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 8 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 9 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 10 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 11 | Perhaps a long blue cloth laid down the middle of the hall represents a river — itself an important boundary . |
| 12 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 13 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 14 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 15 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 16 | It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether . |
| 17 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 18 | And if ‘ planning ’ is now possible at the level of the giant enterprise , perhaps straddling several branches of production , then the planning of the economy to meet social objectives is at least ‘ put on the agenda ’ : what was only a long run historical speculation in the era of smaller-scale entrepreneurial capitalism begins to look like an economically feasible proposition . |
| 19 | I think I shall have to get is a decent FM radio , I use a radio more than a tape actually in the car , but mine 's only a long medium wave job . |
| 20 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 21 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 22 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , the first record we did for RCA , it was literally a long hallway . |
| 24 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 25 | And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man . |
| 26 | Laze away a long summer day , lulled by the sound of green , white-fringed Atlantic waves , hundreds of miles old , endlessly washing golden sands . |
| 27 | She was away a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 29 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 30 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |