Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 4 | If nothing else , it has cast a mighty long shadow down the years . |
| 5 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 6 | The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy . |
| 7 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 8 | Those waiting for the other light operas depicted on the new stamps , will have to wait a little longer to see them staged . |
| 9 | But he or his successor will have to wait a little longer for the revenue benefits which should flow from the more buoyant climate for project investment he has tried to create . |
| 10 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 11 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 12 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 15 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 16 | On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement . |
| 17 | And in the morning she would have to have a very long talk with Feargal 's mother . |
| 18 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping |
| 25 | but he 's got a long inside leg measurement , he says yes I 've got a very long inside measur leg measurement , I 'm thirty one inside leg and I thought |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 28 | You 've had a little longer to form an opinion than I have . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had a very long and happy life without sex . |
| 30 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |