Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 2 | She wore another severe suit , grey this time over a white blouse , but perhaps in honour of the occasion had added a long twisted rope of coral , pearls and crystal . |
| 3 | It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain . |
| 4 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 5 | As a consequence , the last six years of Henry 's reign had witnessed a long and bitter power struggle between the conservatives led by Gardiner and Norfolk , and the evangelicals led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer , Sir Anthony Denny , and the Seymour uncles of Prince Edward . |
| 6 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 7 | The weapon in Mr Cottle 's hand had become a long , loosely coiled spring , lit from within as though by moonlight . |
| 8 | And it was apparently during that hospital visit that Ross and his brother had had a long serious talk about what would be best for the children . |
| 9 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 10 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 11 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |