Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 2 | The war 's going to last a long time yet . ’ |
| 3 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 4 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 7 | I am particularly pleased that Aunt Alice managed to make the long journey down to Surrey from Aberdeen for this occasion , and we are all delighted that Annabelle 's sister , Sharon , flew all the way from Australia to join us and be such a charming bridesmaid . |
| 8 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 9 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 10 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 11 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 12 | Eleanor told him she understood , kissed him and then left to start the long journey home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 15 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |