Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
2 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
3 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
4 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
5 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
6 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
7 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
8 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
9 | The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it . |
10 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
11 | She 's got a much longer face than me , the ideal face . |
12 | But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping |
13 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
14 | ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’ |
15 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
16 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
17 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
18 | That 's still got an awful long way to go . |
19 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
20 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
21 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
22 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
23 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
24 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
25 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
26 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
27 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
28 | If nothing else , it has cast a mighty long shadow down the years . |
29 | ‘ He stated it had all started a very long time ago when he was serving in the army in India and he admitted to still being sexually frustrated . ’ |
30 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |