Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , during the American War of Independence , their colonel is said to have given a long speech under heavy fire about Spartan discipline and the efficient military system of the Lacedaemonians . |
| 2 | When you decide to practise , do not choose a difficult water , or difficult fish , where you are likely to have to wait a long time for a bite . |
| 3 | It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease . |
| 4 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
| 5 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |