Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 2 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 3 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 4 | Has proportionately the longest bill of any bird in the region , which together with its zigzag flight and loud harsh ‘ creech ’ when flushed and remarkable ‘ drumming ’ or ‘ bleating ’ display flight , diving at an angle of 45 , are its best field marks . |
| 5 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 6 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 7 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 8 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 9 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 10 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 11 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 12 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 13 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 14 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 15 | Playing two fewer matches , they finished only one try and 50 points short of their records and , in winning all 37 matches after losing to New Zealand in October 1989 , put together the longest sequence of victories by any Welsh senior club since the war . |
| 16 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 17 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 18 | This period will of course depend upon the nature of the works being carried out and while the landlord will expect quite a long overrun period , it should be possible for the landlord and the tenant to agree a suitable long stop date . |
| 19 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 20 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
| 21 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 22 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 23 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 24 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 25 | He 's got quite a long body which is what |
| 26 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 27 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 28 | ‘ Actually , ’ she said , ‘ you 'll notice I 'm wearing rather a long dress . |
| 29 | Apart from its prominence , Luxulyan was several miles from a river estuary , requiring both a long water pipeline and cooling towers , whilst Gwithian was near the tourist honeypot of St Ives . |
| 30 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |