Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 2 | And they did ; all flattened and crouched , creeping low in the grass ; quite unlike the sprightly reed with its flashy habit of fanning out the long tail to show off white outer tail feathers . |
| 3 | Mould a very little black food colouring into some spare fondant to create a light marbled grey effect , and roll out a long strip to place along each side of the road . |
| 4 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 5 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 6 | So it can take quite a long time to process applications to that point . |
| 7 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 8 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 9 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 10 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 11 | Friends can come quite a long distance to have Sunday lunch with you , whereas for an evening dinner , there probably would not be enough time . |
| 12 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 13 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 14 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 15 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said : ‘ We are making progress on arrears , but have quite a long way to go . |