Example sentences of "[pron] 's [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a long way from any source of supply and if there 's something that has to be specially made , or is too bulky to fly out — a new engine , for instance … ’ |
| 2 | Now there 's a long word for you . |
| 3 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 4 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 5 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 6 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a long list of equipment here , ’ Ruth pointed out . |
| 8 | There 's not much time for socialising as it 's a long day until five , plus work at home . |
| 9 | It 's a long pull up this hill , I 'm not going to run up and drop down dead . |
| 10 | Yeah but it 's a long story behind that . |
| 11 | It 's a long road from here to there — at least as far as it was from there to here via Jamaica ! |
| 12 | Because it 's a long road from sad des desolation , being orphaned to true happiness . |
| 13 | I 've got some cyclists up at Haystock but years ago I mean when they coming up there , it 's a long road from Doncaster Market an an an deep old ditches |
| 14 | She said , feeling angry with herself , ‘ It 's a long drive to London . |
| 15 | ‘ I fancy it very much , ’ she said , and checked her watch , ‘ but it 's well past three and it 's a long drive to Lisbon , so should n't you make a start ? ’ |
| 16 | Well , it 's a long drive from Essex … |
| 17 | And I thought I do n't know how she manages to back that down , but she does , and it 's a long drive like that int it ? |
| 18 | It 's a long way through the massive forests of larch and pine to Novosibirsk , especially if your travelling companion only grunts as he downs another tumbler of cheap vodka . |
| 19 | It 's a long way down fifty feet or more . |
| 20 | It 's a long way down Ray ! |
| 21 | So the main reason , that 's just sorry it 's a long way of getting to it sir but , the main change in circumstance that the county is putting forward since nineteen eighty compared with today is that agricultural policy means that more farmland is being diversified and they feel the need at county level to have a sweep-up policy to control that process . |
| 22 | It 's a long way to Tipperary , Mandalay and Bedford Square . |
| 23 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
| 24 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 25 | It 's a long way to the pawnshop — |
| 26 | And it 's a long way to where we came in . |
| 27 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 28 | " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a long way from the back streets of Brixton to the green fields of Huntingdon , ’ he impressed on the county set . |
| 30 | It 's the closest we 're going to get to a rave tonight , but it 's a long way from the kind of thing Mister C is used to . |