Example sentences of "they [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 2 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 3 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 4 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 5 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 7 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 8 | The single Hebrew word translated ‘ when they make a long blast ’ is a common enough verb meaning to ‘ draw ’ or ‘ drag ’ . |
| 9 | They drew a long covert upwind between Queen Hoo Hall and Bramfield . |
| 10 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |
| 11 | They exchanged a long , hard look . |
| 12 | They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke . |
| 13 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 14 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 15 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |
| 16 | They trailed a long rope ( the only way of escaping off this severely overhanging route ) all the way up and through the grade to be ‘ mild E6 ’ . |
| 17 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 18 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 19 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 20 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 21 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 22 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 23 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 24 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 25 | Above all they presented a long established ranking order : gold and silver for higher denominations in descending order and non-precious copper for small change . |
| 26 | The question of his metropolitan privileges will require separate discussion , for they cast a long shadow over the whole of Anselm 's life as archbishop . |
| 27 | Because the the nettle I 'm grasping is this ah it is said by the , both of them , that it was you who had what they call a long barrelled gun , it must be a shotgun . |
| 28 | This Tokyo factory is the one that makes the modern Schecter guitars as well as the Casio synth guitars and Kramer electrics ( recently deceased ) so they 've a long history of making quality instruments . |
| 29 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 30 | In the third year they take two full-year courses , two one-term options , and in addition they write a long essay on a selected topic . |