Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had a long chat with the , with the cleansing officer and the main point |
| 2 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 3 | So I bought a long top , which came well below my hips , to wear with them . |
| 4 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 5 | Apparently it goes a long way . |
| 6 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 7 | Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes . |
| 8 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
| 9 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 10 | Tonight she needed a long soft loving , and he was the man to give it to her . |
| 11 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 12 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 13 | By now I had a long list of prospective release sites and sound experience behind me , so things went pretty much according to plan . |
| 14 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 15 | With the Triplane boring in from behind he fired a long burst at the dead centre of the bag , and saw the fabric split and flare . |
| 16 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 17 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 18 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 19 | ‘ Geographically it looks a long way but in travel time it is n't very far at all . ’ |
| 20 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 21 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
| 22 | She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours , then she had a long bath and washed her hair . |
| 23 | Sara was looking up at him as he said something , then she gave a long , shrill laugh , showing her perfect white teeth . |
| 24 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 25 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 26 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
| 27 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 28 | Then he heard a long cry … |
| 29 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
| 30 | And few years , and yet he said a long face , if you was n't you was n't happy with the thought of running a district that was nationalized see ? |