Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given the star a long fiery tail and surrounded it with darts of reflected light . |
| 2 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |
| 3 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 4 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 5 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 6 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
| 7 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 8 | No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly . |
| 9 | The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of . |
| 10 | The health ministry could have ended the problem a long time ago — it 's one of the biggest scandals in public health at the moment . |
| 11 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |