Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |
| 2 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 3 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 4 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 5 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 6 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 7 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 8 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 9 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 10 | I thought you had a long Christmas break ? |
| 11 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 12 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 13 | Did it take a long time ? |
| 14 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 15 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 16 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 17 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 18 | Yeah he said it takes a long time |