Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 2 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 3 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 4 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 5 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 6 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 7 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 8 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 9 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 10 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 11 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 12 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 13 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 14 | Caradryel continued to oversee the long retreat from the Old World . |
| 15 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 16 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 17 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 18 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 19 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 20 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 21 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 22 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 23 | Multiple champions Honda have quit the long distance haul and Alex Vieira ( on the RVF ) now rides for Kawasaki |
| 24 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 25 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 26 | Lewis plans to take a long break — in Britain — after first heading to Las Vegas to commentate for Sky TV on the November 13 title battle between reigning champion Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe that will decide his opponent next April . |
| 27 | The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down . |
| 28 | As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives . |
| 29 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 30 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |