Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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1 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
2 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
3 | A teacher is needed to take over a long standing recreational class at in September . |
4 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
5 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |