Example sentences of "go [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round .
2 He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home .
3 Why did he always want to go the long way round .
4 The commander , a Yugoslav general , shuttles back and forth on direct flights instead of going the long way round through Turkey .
5 She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . "
6 ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped .
7 Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica .
8 You ca n't park , a big car 's an advantage if you 're going a long way
9 A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack .
10 As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks .
11 I think she 's going to go a long way — which she deserves to . ’
12 To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far .
13 However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority .
14 But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . "
15 ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said .
16 ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that .
17 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
18 If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners …
19 I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record .
20 But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus .
21 It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way .
22 Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year
23 In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect .
24 Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem .
25 The actual construction of a carpet goes a long way to determining how long it will keep its original appearance .
26 Cheese is a protein of high biological value and a little goes a long way .
27 Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor .
28 This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .
29 No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms .
30 The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived .
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