Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That should take him a long time to .
2 That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time !
3 Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations .
4 It would take him a long time then would n't it ?
5 It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them .
6 If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget .
7 Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies .
8 You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch .
9 It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it .
10 ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean .
11 Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable .
12 It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’
13 You may find it a long way to come for a comparatively short meeting and I should also mention that we have a regular reporter who covers the meeting on behalf of the Courier and the Garstang Guardian .
14 ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’
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