Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
| 2 | I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ ) |
| 3 | While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative . |
| 4 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 5 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 6 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 7 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 8 | These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months . |
| 9 | Addition : Suppose you are given a long column of figures to add . |
| 10 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 11 | Yes I I I would accept that as a general point yes that that that that that that the greater number of years , the more likely you are to get a long term trend . |
| 12 | You would be wise to phone ahead , especially if you are coming a long way , to check opening times because they vary from time to time . |
| 13 | And if you 're building a long flight , it can always be broken up with separate landings , either where the flight changes direction , or just for a change of pace . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're taking a long chance , sitting there and making with all this stuff . |
| 15 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 16 | You ca n't park , a big car 's an advantage if you 're going a long way |
| 17 | • If you 're travelling a long way to buy fish , it 's worth asking for them to be bagged separately and , if they are freshwater fish , take a handful of zeolite with your , which the assistant can then drop into the bottom of the bag to help prevent ammonia problems during the journey . |
| 18 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 19 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 21 | She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes . |
| 22 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 23 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 24 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 25 | ‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Th th that we er we , we are moving a long way away from this egalitarian position , we 've abandoned that and we 've said right we , we are |
| 27 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |
| 28 | They will say that they do n't have the courage to stay emotionally alive , particularly if they are serving a long sentence . |
| 29 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 30 | They were gone a long time . |