Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe threw the Dragoon 's blade off then desperately backswung the long sword to meet the second man 's charge . |
| 2 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 3 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 4 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 5 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 6 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 7 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 8 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 9 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 10 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 11 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 12 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 13 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |