Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | That should take him a long time to . |
2 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
3 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
4 | Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations . |
5 | ‘ I would make her a long , single-breasted jacket with a nipped-in waist , long sleeves and a stand-up mandarin collar to keep out the cold . |
6 | It would take him a long time then would n't it ? |
7 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
8 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
9 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
10 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
11 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
12 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
13 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
14 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
15 | You may find it a long way to come for a comparatively short meeting and I should also mention that we have a regular reporter who covers the meeting on behalf of the Courier and the Garstang Guardian . |
16 | You 've got all you 've got really you 've got the hypotenuse but you do n't need to bother with you just can call it the long one . |