Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 2 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 3 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |
| 4 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 5 | This Tokyo factory is the one that makes the modern Schecter guitars as well as the Casio synth guitars and Kramer electrics ( recently deceased ) so they 've a long history of making quality instruments . |
| 6 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 7 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 8 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 9 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 10 | If you require a long , technical explanation of how pre-flash works together with such terms as ‘ Gamma ’ and ‘ Exponential Progression ’ Gene 's book , ( Chapter 12. ) will explain it . |
| 11 | If you require a long , technical explanation of how pre-flash works together with such terms as ‘ Gamma ’ and ‘ Exponential Progression ’ Gene 's book , ( Chapter 12. ) will explain it . |
| 12 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 13 | If you need a long term home we will help you to find somewhere where the costs can be met by the Department . |
| 14 | Well if we had a long a long thing to read . |
| 15 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |
| 16 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 17 | If a WC is blocked , a large sink plunger may work ( do n't use one with a metal flange which could damage the pan ) , provided it has a long handle ; alternatively , use a length of drain rod fitted with a rubber disc . |
| 18 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 19 | Never allow a water pump to suck in air if it feeds a long length of pipework to a system of tanks or ponds . |
| 20 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 21 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 22 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 23 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 24 | if he wears a long sleeve shirt , as soon as he takes his jacket off , he wo n't go around with his shirt |
| 25 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 26 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 27 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 28 | ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high . |
| 29 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 30 | You hear the crowd roar and a new name comes up on the leaderboard and you wonder whether he holed a long putt or chipped in . |