Example sentences of "[vb infin] a long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Square Face : Wear a headpiece that sits on the back of your head and opt for an understated veil style , although your face shape will carry a long veil beautifully . |
| 2 | You ca n't just pull that across , might look a long way out . |
| 3 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 4 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 5 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 6 | ‘ And did any ask of you , towards the end of the evening , to help him hoist a long bundle on to the wagon with the wood ? ’ asked Cadfael , directly but without much expectation , and shook to the simple answer . |
| 7 | The persistence of the white chalk facies outside the new mountain belts must clearly indicate a long period when the Eurasian and American plates were not being affected by any major continental collisions . |
| 8 | I thought does n't this take a long time just for a little tiny bit ? |
| 9 | collection of data may take a long time especially if the survey covers a wide geographical area |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have a long day tomorrow , ’ Rose encouraged . |
| 11 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 12 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll go a long way out of his way for something he likes to eat , will your average fox . |
| 14 | He would walk a long distance out to some pub , often the Malcolm Arms at Anton 's Gowt , and have lunch in the bar on beer and bread and cheese . |
| 15 | ‘ Does she live a long way off ? ’ |
| 16 | The year 's end might seem a long way off but the minute-by-minute activities of a Profitboss are always directed to that end and the interim end-results required to achieve it . |
| 17 | For those contemplating a university course , graduation may seem a long way off — 1997 and beyond — and thoughts of what to do afterwards may understandably be equally distant . |
| 18 | Those days must seem a long time ago . |
| 19 | The erm difference in cer some things can seem a long time ago and some are relatively recent . |