Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of her angry and tearful protests Charles insisted on giving the token to the woman who had haunted their courtship and has since cast a long shadow across their married life . |
| 2 | Morrissey , formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist , is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery . |
| 3 | Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run . |
| 4 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 5 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 6 | He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it . |
| 7 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 8 | WordStar has probably got the longest pedigree of any of the current word processing packages , harking back to CP/M and beyond . |
| 9 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 10 | Even more crucially , they are the product of an outdated political system which has consistently sacrificed the long term to the short term and abandoned principles for expediency . |
| 11 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |
| 12 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 13 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 14 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 15 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 16 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 17 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 18 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 19 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 20 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 21 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 22 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 23 | The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors . |
| 24 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 25 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 26 | Well they 'd never , they had n't made a long player Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now are n't they ? |
| 27 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 28 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 29 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 30 | I have just taken a long , stiff drink . |