Example sentences of "you [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , if you take the , if you , if you make the long list and then say to the client , well now , what can you do without . |
| 2 | You walk a long way when you go to , across Crackside . |
| 3 | It 's a special plan that enables you to avoid the long wait for medical treatment — but without the high costs of so many private health schemes . |
| 4 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 5 | Once you have seen which publishers might be interested in your novel , you begin the long process of sending it to one after another . |
| 6 | Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 9 | You know a long time , a long time . |
| 10 | He sat on the cutting machine and and then as it come on to the Ah but what do you call the long thing ? |
| 11 | Now , do you hear a long beep and a short beep , a long beep and a short beep ? |
| 12 | " Do you have a long way to go ? " |
| 13 | May God bless you and may you have a long life . ’ |
| 14 | I know it is hard for those of you travelling a long way , but it is very disconcerting for the poor teacher to have a steady trickle of latecomers all through the lesson — particularly when most of the latecomers are not the people who have travelled furthest ! |
| 15 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 16 | Can you walk a long way , Tessy ? ’ |
| 17 | and you go the long stay car park and |
| 18 | ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back . |
| 19 | It is still what you call a long shot ? ’ |
| 20 | Cut sprigs of cherry laurel and yew from their main branches ensuring you leave a long stem and securely push them into the cane ring until the circle is complete |
| 21 | Fire extinguishers for home use are not generally recommended by fire prevention experts , except as a safeguard it you live a long way from your nearest fire station . |
| 22 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 23 | You 've a long way to go yet and a lot to learn . |
| 24 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 25 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 26 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 27 | They were in desks , you had a long desk that took Now some of them they took five on the one the one desk , you see ? |
| 28 | I thought you had a long Christmas break ? |
| 29 | till you reach the long room : pale green damask |
| 30 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |