Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
2 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
3 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
4 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
5 | Exactly you have to think a long time . |
6 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
7 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
8 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
9 | Well he 's got a long wait . |
10 | what 's it called ca n't think of the name of the blooming thing now but it was you did a line across , then you learn to do a long stitch |
11 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |