Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 2 | Under Swiss law she would get a long prison sentence . |
| 3 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 4 | Time and time again we would begin the long task of explaining who John was and what on earth we were doing . |
| 5 | This would continue until about 11 pm , when they would begin the long drive home . |
| 6 | He would walk a long distance out to some pub , often the Malcolm Arms at Anton 's Gowt , and have lunch in the bar on beer and bread and cheese . |
| 7 | Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) . |
| 8 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 9 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 10 | If you could try to look as if you 're being guarded , it would go a long way . |
| 11 | However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break . |
| 12 | It would cause a long and harsh ‘ nuclear winter ’ with Arctic conditions and continuous darkness . |
| 13 | Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem . |
| 14 | It would take a long , long time to heal , if ever . |
| 15 | The Eradicator may well be the solution ; tests conducted by Ray have certainly proved encouraging , and it would take a long string of coincidences to attain the results he has achieved by any other means . |
| 16 | The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety . |
| 17 | She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level . |
| 18 | It would take a long — |
| 19 | It would take a long time to get our grill out because I do n't think it would move any more . |
| 20 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |