Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 2 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 3 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 4 | One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time . |
| 5 | Cut out a long strip of coloured paper and cut a scalloped edge along one side . |
| 6 | Benstede pursed his lips and let out a long sigh . |
| 7 | She suddenly let out a long sigh and swept her hair from her face . |
| 8 | ‘ There is enough to do , ’ he said , and let out a long breath . |
| 9 | Folly let out a long breath of relief . |
| 10 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
| 11 | Mould a very little black food colouring into some spare fondant to create a light marbled grey effect , and roll out a long strip to place along each side of the road . |
| 12 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 13 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 14 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 15 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 16 | They go back a long way . |
| 17 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 18 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 19 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 20 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 21 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 23 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 24 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 25 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 26 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |
| 27 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 28 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 29 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 30 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |