Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just got a long continuance tone . |
| 2 | ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle . |
| 3 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 4 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 5 | Rummaging around on the bench , she finally found a long chisel which , she decided , would have to do . |
| 6 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 7 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 8 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 9 | Everyman , who also undertook a long journey . |
| 10 | It was no use trying a friendly smile because you immediately developed a long line of followers and felt like a comet with a tail . |
| 11 | She then attached a long lunging rein which she had brought coiled over her shoulder to Midnight 's noseband . |
| 12 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 13 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 14 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |
| 15 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 16 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 17 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 18 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 19 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 20 | However , he also went a long way towards showing that this apparent conflict could be reconciled by isolating ways in which the two ideals were similar . |
| 21 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 22 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | He was certainly in Italy before Narses died in 574 , and he subsequently spent a long time in Constantinople . |
| 24 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 25 | He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate . |