Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 4 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 5 | The war 's going to last a long time yet . ’ |
| 6 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 7 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 8 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 9 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 10 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 11 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 12 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 13 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 14 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 15 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 16 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
| 17 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 18 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 19 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 20 | I 've got a long drive tomorrow . |
| 21 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 22 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 23 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 24 | It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain . |
| 25 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 26 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 27 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 28 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 29 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 30 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |