Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 2 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 3 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 4 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 5 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 6 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | Mrs Singh remarked what a long way it seemed . |
| 8 | He delivered her a long look , then smiled . |
| 9 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 10 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 11 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 12 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 13 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 14 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 15 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 16 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 17 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 18 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 19 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 20 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 21 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 22 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 23 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 24 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 26 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 27 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 28 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 29 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 30 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |