Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 2 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 3 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
| 4 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 5 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 6 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 7 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 8 | He rested his hand on her shoulder and gave her a long kiss on the lips . |
| 9 | Cindy gave him a long look through her sunglasses . |
| 10 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 11 | Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest . |