Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 2 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 3 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 4 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 5 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 6 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 8 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 9 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |
| 10 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 11 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
| 12 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 13 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 14 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 15 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 16 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 17 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 18 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 19 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 20 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 21 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
| 22 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 23 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 24 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 25 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 26 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |