Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 2 | A number of boards have been rescued trying to make the long sail to the Isle of Wight off the British coast , which , on a clear day , appears far closer than it actually is . |
| 3 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 4 | It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it . |
| 5 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 6 | Again , during the American War of Independence , their colonel is said to have given a long speech under heavy fire about Spartan discipline and the efficient military system of the Lacedaemonians . |
| 7 | Well I 'd like to say stay a long time but actually I thought |
| 8 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 9 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 10 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 11 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 12 | Although British women who qualify do have the longest leave in Europe ( 30 weeks ) , three months of it is unpaid . |
| 13 | Well maybe they do , but we take this we always take this as a year on year situation and you 've got to do a longer term comparison if you 're going to get the true effect of the services |
| 14 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 15 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 16 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 17 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 18 | Despite all the troubles , I never heard a woman say she regretted having supported the long strike . |
| 19 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 20 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |