Example sentences of "they [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( They had a long argument over this . ) |
| 32 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 33 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 34 | They had a long way to go . |
| 35 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 36 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 37 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 38 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 39 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 40 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 41 | They had a long , long garden , with a high wall at the end . |
| 42 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 43 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 46 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 47 | They carried a long plastic body-bag into the building . |
| 48 | They trail a long , dangling , falling aim |
| 49 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 50 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 51 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 52 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 53 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 54 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 55 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 56 | Left unprocessed , they have a long storage life if kept dry . |
| 57 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 58 | They have a long way to go . |
| 59 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 60 | Consequently 21 per cent of the population of Great Britain report that they have a long standing limiting illness ( 19 per cent of males and 22 per cent of females ) . |