Example sentences of "[verb] get a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 2 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got a long lonely road home in front of me . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 5 | I 've got a long drive tomorrow . |
| 6 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 7 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 8 | They 've got a long list , and I assume that the non long listed candidates have been told ? |
| 9 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |
| 10 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 11 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
| 12 | Yes cos you 've got a long way |
| 13 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 14 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
| 15 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
| 16 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 17 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 18 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 19 | He 's got a long memory and can be rather spiteful . |
| 20 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 21 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid she 's got a long wait , though , ’ said Mum to Brown Owl . |
| 23 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 24 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 25 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 26 | It 's got a long garden |
| 27 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 28 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 29 | Well he 's got a long wait . |
| 30 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |