Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's definitely a possession of other people , I have a very long list of things I want to do . ’ |
| 2 | I work a very long hours . |
| 3 | You know a fairly long stack could take a couple of days . |
| 4 | Where you have a fairly long shelf , it is wise to add a horizontal back support . |
| 5 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've a very long way to go . ’ |
| 8 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 9 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 10 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
| 11 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 12 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 13 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 14 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
| 15 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 16 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 17 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 18 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 19 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 20 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 21 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 23 | Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them . |
| 24 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |