Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 2 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 3 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 4 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 5 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 7 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 8 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 9 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 10 | finished starts a long way back , do n't it ? |
| 11 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 12 | Superior still looks a long way off . |
| 13 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 14 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 15 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |
| 16 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 17 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 18 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 19 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 20 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 21 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 22 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 23 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 24 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 26 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 27 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 28 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 29 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 30 | He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly . |