Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 2 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 3 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 4 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 5 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 6 | The man who says when you need a door opened to save a long walk — ‘ It 's more than my jobsworth , mate ’ . |
| 7 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 8 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 9 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 10 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 11 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 12 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 13 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 14 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 15 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 16 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 17 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 18 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 19 | The other man had difficulty starting the machine and had to put a long handle in the front and turn it several times before the engine roared into life startling the children again . |
| 20 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 21 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 22 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 23 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |
| 24 | That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy . |
| 25 | In late 1919 Eliot resolved to begin a long poem . |
| 26 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 27 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
| 28 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |