Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 2 | As the shell emerges from the gun barrel at more than 15000 m/s , aluminium petals peel away to reveal a long , thin tungsten-alloy rod with fins at the rear to stabilise it and thus improve accuracy . |
| 3 | From then on , the walk was far less interesting : we passed the Bishops Wordsworth School Sports Field then came a long dull stretch to The Rose and Crown , that always looked decrepit until renovation in the ‘ thirties . |
| 4 | Shareholders who do not have a long term commitment are replaced by stakeholders who do , as the ‘ owners ’ of the company . |
| 5 | Do n't devise a long list of rules for the sake of having rules : make sure they serve a purpose — to enhance your child 's safety– wellbeing and steady ( not hurried ) progress towards maturity . |
| 6 | And I 'm sure you do n't want a long speech but I 've tried to prepare something , and I hope it 's all right . |
| 7 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
| 8 | Right so I will say no I don I do n't have a long term one , and no I 'm not registered . |
| 9 | Then again , after Linda Lusardi and Tonya in just eight months , health and fitness advisors do n't have a long life expectancy on GMTV . |
| 10 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 11 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 12 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 13 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 15 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 16 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 17 | I have just taken a long , stiff drink . |
| 18 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 19 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 20 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |