Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 2 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 3 | I suggest you spend a long time thinking about what you really want . ’ |
| 4 | Will you get on that ma , has it got a long play ? |
| 5 | Although the affair was soon forgotten it took a long time for Phil to live down that one ! |
| 6 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |
| 7 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Clay County wrenched the muscles in his quarters when dropping his hind legs in the water jump at Nottingham , so we decided to give the Cheltenham Festival a miss and let him have a long break . |
| 9 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 10 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 11 | ‘ And did any ask of you , towards the end of the evening , to help him hoist a long bundle on to the wagon with the wood ? ’ asked Cadfael , directly but without much expectation , and shook to the simple answer . |
| 12 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 13 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 14 | We know he ran a long way . |
| 15 | You know he sounded a long time when he was saying it . |
| 16 | You know he works a long way down , on the fourth floor under the stage . |
| 17 | Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases . |
| 18 | Then he relaxes into a sorrowful smile , like when you remember someone you loved who died a long time ago . |
| 19 | I could hear him whistling a long way behind . |
| 20 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 21 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 22 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 23 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 24 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 25 | The ‘ celebratory drink ’ fast developed into a full-scale party , but Shannon managed to make her excuses and leave , knowing she had a long drive ahead of her . |
| 26 | I thought you had a long Christmas break ? |
| 27 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 28 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 29 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 30 | " Do you have a long way to go ? " |