Example sentences of "[pron] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 2 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 3 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ it 's not too easy to answer without giving you a long lecture on the structure of the body . ’ |
| 5 | Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest . |
| 6 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 7 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
| 8 | Well it 's taken me a long time to even be able to give affection . |
| 9 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 10 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 11 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 12 | There a long series of rectifications , again often based on exchanges carefully adjusted to make sure that neither side too obviously gained or lost by them , meant that by 1789 the boundary was essentially a modern linear one . |
| 13 | ‘ Take him a long way from the Tree and kill him ! ’ |
| 14 | Cindy gave him a long look through her sunglasses . |
| 15 | Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) . |
| 16 | That should take him a long time to . |
| 17 | Had a car not followed her a long way along the Bayswater Road when she was coming to meet Urquhart ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He rested his hand on her shoulder and gave her a long kiss on the lips . |
| 20 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
| 21 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
| 22 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 23 | What a long weekend for two ? |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | What a long bit of New York , I thought . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ These hospitals are essential in an area like this where many older people find themselves a long way from their family , ’ says Dr David Skerrett , a GP who has practised in Fowey , Cornwall , for 30 years and plans to stay put for his retirement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 30 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |