Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] quite [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 2 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 3 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 4 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 5 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 6 | Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers . |
| 7 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 8 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 9 | it seems quite a long time |
| 10 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 11 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |