Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 2 | Playing two fewer matches , they finished only one try and 50 points short of their records and , in winning all 37 matches after losing to New Zealand in October 1989 , put together the longest sequence of victories by any Welsh senior club since the war . |
| 3 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |
| 4 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 5 | I think possibly a long lens , just the having sort of , the two boats , again , that might have been better . |
| 6 | M my parents live quite a long way away and erm y you 've got to you need the support of others . |
| 7 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 8 | Laze away a long summer day , lulled by the sound of green , white-fringed Atlantic waves , hundreds of miles old , endlessly washing golden sands . |
| 9 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 10 | Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers . |
| 11 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said : ‘ We are making progress on arrears , but have quite a long way to go . |