Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 2 | Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series . |
| 3 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 4 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 5 | Robbie ventured to ask when the long , uncomfortably silent walk was over and Water Gypsy was under way once more . |
| 6 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 7 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 8 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 9 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 10 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 11 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 12 | A teacher is needed to take over a long standing recreational class at in September . |
| 13 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 14 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 15 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 16 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 17 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 18 | Patients were randmly allocated to receive either the long acting somatostatin analogue octreotide ( n=121 ) or isotonic saline intravenously as a placebo ( n= 124 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 20 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 21 | It has been placed in receivership after failing to ride out a long economic recession which has hit the building industry very hard . |
| 22 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 23 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 24 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 25 | It is believed the money allegedly went missing over a long period , dating back to last season 's Cup Final . |
| 26 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 27 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 28 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 29 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 30 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |