Example sentences of "[vb past] a long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 2 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 3 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 4 | McCarthy 's mistake came in the 76th minute when he allowed a long ball to go over his head , and Guy Whittingham nipped in for the equaliser . |
| 5 | Parkin made a long sigh to give himself time to think . |
| 6 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 7 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 8 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 9 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 10 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 11 | The lance shivered , the shaft splintering halfway down to the guard , and Hotspur hurled it from him , and reached a long arm to snatch at the bridle as he was swept past , and drag the terrified horse to its feet again . |
| 12 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 13 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 14 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 15 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 16 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 17 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 18 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 19 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 20 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 21 | The small block of semi-refined sugar , like cement , took a long time to dissolve . |
| 22 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 23 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 24 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 25 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 26 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 27 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
| 28 | It took a long time to open it and when he drank , it tasted warm against his mouth , as if it had been in the sun ; only there was no sun , not even at fifteen thousand . |
| 29 | The picturesque view , which envisages life as art , took a long time to die . |
| 30 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |