Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
| 2 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
| 3 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 4 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a very long story . |
| 6 | The queue in front of the bank has n't budged since the beginning of June , and it 's a very long queue . |
| 7 | And it will be some days this time , because Christmas day is on Saturday , so it 's a very long , long weekend and holiday period . |
| 8 | It 's still going , it 's a very long tape in here |
| 9 | Well there was just , it 's not , surprising it 's a very long day , when you initially said I allow the period of the plaintiff by mistake you said defendant , just for the record |
| 10 | I think that it 's a very long term thing and until the attitudes of both men and women and boys and girls at schools who come up here change , and that 's going to be a long time |
| 11 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's a very long way to cycle , is it er , have you done anything like before Chris ? |
| 13 | I 'm not putting it around the table , because it 's a very long letter , and I do n't think we could have a worthwhile discussion on it right now . |
| 14 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 15 | Wait until you see my moustache , it 's a really long one down to here . |
| 16 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , It is a very long time since I heard from you . |
| 17 | It is a very long piece ( probably too long ) but contains some attractive ideas . |
| 18 | But it is a very long time since anyone attempted a popular history of the left in Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a very long way , for a taxi , but your uncle gave Francie the money and insisted , ’ said Finn . |
| 20 | It is a very long journey that we are beginning . |
| 21 | Erm , but er , it is a very long book , and er , it , it , it is a masterpiece , and if you were to read The Golden Bough , or any part of it , or any other work of Frazer 's for that matter , you would immediately be reminded of Totem and Taboo , because Frazer 's method is comparative . |
| 22 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 23 | It is a very long novel ; on the other hand it seems to be one of the best novels ever written , and I would strongly recommend somebody who has perhaps read a little George Eliot to go on to that . |
| 24 | It is a terribly long question . |
| 25 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 26 | It was a strenuously long day for the 26-year-old psychiatrist 's daughter from Kilkenny , who had survived a two-down-with-six-to-play crisis before lunch to beat Ulster 's gallant little Michelle McGreevy on the 17th . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , I think Freud 's view was that er the erm , if it was a really long complicated dream , you were recalling a previous fantasy rather than er necessarily creating from scratch because of this particular stimulus . |
| 28 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 29 | As always , it was a very long day to get through . |
| 30 | It was a very long year . |