Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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1 | So I had a long chat with the , with the cleansing officer and the main point |
2 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
3 | So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them . |
4 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
5 | Apparently it goes a long way . |
6 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
7 | Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes . |
8 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
9 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
10 | Tonight she needed a long soft loving , and he was the man to give it to her . |
11 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
12 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
13 | And coming back I had a long talk with the nice shy boy , Jean-Louis . |
14 | By now I had a long list of prospective release sites and sound experience behind me , so things went pretty much according to plan . |
15 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
16 | With the Triplane boring in from behind he fired a long burst at the dead centre of the bag , and saw the fabric split and flare . |
17 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
18 | Well I know a long while ago |
19 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
20 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
21 | ‘ Geographically it looks a long way but in travel time it is n't very far at all . ’ |
22 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
23 | Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority . |
24 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
25 | She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours , then she had a long bath and washed her hair . |
26 | Sara was looking up at him as he said something , then she gave a long , shrill laugh , showing her perfect white teeth . |
27 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
28 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
29 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
30 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |