Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 2 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid she 's got a long wait , though , ’ said Mum to Brown Owl . |
| 4 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 5 | Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks . |
| 6 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 7 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 8 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 9 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 10 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 11 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 12 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 13 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 14 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 15 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 16 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 17 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 18 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 20 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 21 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 22 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 23 | It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course . |
| 24 | It 's got a long garden |
| 25 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 26 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 27 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 28 | It 's come a long way |
| 29 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 30 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |