Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 3 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 6 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 11 | He 's just he 's just got one a long way out though right looks as though we 've either just missed one and they Oh no they are just coming are n't they ? just missed one there |
| 12 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 13 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 14 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 15 | Well you , I mean to say that I 've had mine a long time and you ai n't done much mileage on it . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Erm so that shows what a long time ago it was . |
| 18 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 19 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 20 | Great , they last me a long time |
| 21 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 22 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 23 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 24 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Singh remarked what a long way it seemed . |
| 26 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 30 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |