Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 3 | Do n't do anything yet , I shall get John to write you a long technical letter . |
| 4 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 5 | At Yanto 's suggestion they had each gone off and found themselves a long thin stick apiece . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 8 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 9 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 10 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If that does n't work we will then dig in and do it the long and hard way . ’ |
| 13 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 16 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 17 | You 've had yours a long t a minute ago cos I 've picked it up for somebody else . |
| 18 | He 's just he 's just got one a long way out though right looks as though we 've either just missed one and they Oh no they are just coming are n't they ? just missed one there |
| 19 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 20 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 21 | He poured her a long cool gin sling , and bade her sit . |
| 22 | He leaned forward and poured her a long cool glass of freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 23 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 24 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 25 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 26 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 27 | Well you , I mean to say that I 've had mine a long time and you ai n't done much mileage on it . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Erm so that shows what a long time ago it was . |
| 30 | I should like to thank Edward and Peter for their years of service to the Diocese and to wish them a long and happy retirement . |