Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 2 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 3 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 4 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 5 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 6 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 7 | I think possibly a long lens , just the having sort of , the two boats , again , that might have been better . |
| 8 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 9 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 10 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 11 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 12 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 13 | When it slammed behind him she let out a long , shaky breath and felt blindly for a chair , afraid she 'd collapse without some means of support . |
| 14 | She let out a long , sobbing shriek . |
| 15 | She let out a long , appreciative sigh . |
| 16 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 17 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 18 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 19 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 20 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 21 | She gave out a long sigh . |
| 22 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 23 | She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home . |
| 24 | She pushed back a long fair curl with one hand . |
| 25 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 26 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 29 | We go up a long , but steepish , slope and pause to catch our breath and share the experience . |
| 30 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |