Example sentences of "[vb past] a long [noun sg] get " in BNC.

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1	Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ?
2	The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury .
3	Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) .
4	After all , Jones spent a long time getting the wording right , and you wo n't be able to improve on it .
5	I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’
6	On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station .
7	But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold .
8	And that took a long time getting used to .
9	Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 .
10	The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not .
11	But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state .
12	It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff .
13	Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand .
14	By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother .

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