Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 2 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 3 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 4 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 5 | But er we , we had quite a difficulty , very , very difficult , we used to have to walk a long way before we could get to a telephone . |
| 6 | But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started . |