Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I 'm naming one man among many , therefore , an initial attempt is made to match a long word to the sequence ( Fig 7.5.1 ) . |
| 2 | Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . |
| 3 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 4 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 5 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 6 | Well maybe they do , but we take this we always take this as a year on year situation and you 've got to do a longer term comparison if you 're going to get the true effect of the services |
| 7 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 8 | This means that , although it was originally intended to publish a longer work , it was never completed and that the three volumes out of the planned six , or some other combination , are all that will ever be available , unless some other author is eventually commissioned to complete the job . |
| 9 | Indeed it could be argued that a family crisis ( for example the suicide of a father ) is bound to have a long term effect upon the child . |
| 10 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 11 | Gooch has been known to carry a long face on his sleeve and he may well appreciate the strength of Gatting . |
| 12 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 13 | Unless you 've been asked to fill a longer time , aim at making your item three to four minutes in length . |
| 14 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 15 | finished starts a long way back , do n't it ? |
| 16 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 17 | The carts in which the other members of the three households were riding had been forced to take a longer route to the spot . |
| 18 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 19 | A much quoted example is in Latin American cultures , where sales representatives are often kept waiting a long time for a business appointment ; in our culture this would be unorthodox , and at best it would be seen as being very bad mannered . |
| 20 | ‘ No , my health broke down and I was ordered to take a long holiday in the South of France or Italy . ’ |