Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
| 32 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 33 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 34 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 35 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 36 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 37 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 38 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 39 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 40 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
| 41 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 42 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 43 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 44 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 45 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 46 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |
| 47 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 48 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 49 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 50 | The links between sport , the media ‘ and big business ‘ which are now so important , have taken a long time to forge . |
| 51 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 52 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 53 | Residents have fought a long campaign to stop some motorists using the roads as a race track . |
| 54 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 55 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 56 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 57 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |