Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [be] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting . |
| 2 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 3 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 4 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 5 | Oh it , it was n't there seemed to be a long time you know before they turned one out to make , because it was a very long process rebuilding an aircraft , es especially as the situation was at Walsall . |
| 6 | ( a ) Whatever the role of individual mosaicists or groups of mosaicists was in the second century , there appears to be a long term trend in the popularity of certain designs over which control by these mosaicists was negligible . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems to be a long way . ’ |
| 8 | It proved to be a long and painful process , starting at nine o'clock in the morning and ending at around three in the afternoon . |
| 9 | It proved to be a long , painful , and frustrating operation , which along the way provoked two serious insurrections against the regime , alienated much of the army , and left behind lifelong resentments . |
| 10 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 11 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 12 | When they reached the approach to what appeared to be a long deep cutting , Mary stopped . |