Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just got a long continuance tone . |
| 2 | I still remember the long black gloves that she wore . |
| 3 | Why , I still have a long workout in my net every morning even before our first cuppa ginseng . |
| 4 | ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle . |
| 5 | I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth . |
| 6 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 7 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 8 | Rummaging around on the bench , she finally found a long chisel which , she decided , would have to do . |
| 9 | ring me up and asking I understand you Anyway to cut a long story short , he was basically saying well do you know of any computers ? |
| 10 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 11 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 12 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 13 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 14 | It was no use trying a friendly smile because you immediately developed a long line of followers and felt like a comet with a tail . |
| 15 | She particularly liked the long poem ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ and memorized it . |
| 16 | She then attached a long lunging rein which she had brought coiled over her shoulder to Midnight 's noseband . |
| 17 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 18 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 19 | A spokesman from Body Positive , a support group for people with the virus justified the campaign : ‘ We still have a long way to go because the general public is still very ignorant and there 's a lot of misinformation around . ’ |
| 20 | Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels . |
| 21 | A closer look at the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology reveals that we still have a long way to go to realise them fully . |
| 22 | I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go . |
| 23 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 24 | Det Insp Gordon Williams added : ‘ We still have a long way to go before we reach our target . |
| 25 | But even with the successful , and still limited legislation , backed up with the pressure of millions of pounds recovered in compensation by our union , we still have a long way to go . |
| 26 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 27 | It says : ’ Such concentration on meeting the Government guarantee , and use of funds originally earmarked for other purposes for YT , inevitably means that other aspects of our proposed programme may suffer and that we also neglect the long term development of Youth Training itself . ’ |
| 28 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 29 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 30 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |