Example sentences of "[vb pp] a long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 2 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 3 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 4 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 5 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 6 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 7 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 8 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 9 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 10 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 11 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 12 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 14 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 15 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 16 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 17 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 18 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 19 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 20 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 21 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 22 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 23 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 24 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 25 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 26 | We have got a long road ahead but he will get fit because he is so determined . ’ |
| 27 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 28 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 29 | I 've got a long drive tomorrow . |
| 30 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |