Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 2 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 3 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 4 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 5 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 6 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 7 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 8 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 9 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 10 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 11 | Robert : I need a long nail to go right through . |
| 12 | Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases . |
| 13 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |
| 14 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 15 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 16 | She spent a long evening working with Philip , as his assistant , handing him tools , holding steady the beam of a powerful torch . |
| 17 | " Do you have a long way to go ? " |
| 18 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 19 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 20 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 21 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 22 | You 've a long way to go yet and a lot to learn . |
| 23 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 24 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 25 | I suggest you spend a long time thinking about what you really want . ’ |
| 26 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 27 | You have a long way to go to win them back . |
| 28 | Elliott : You need a long piece to go right round him . |
| 29 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 30 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |