Example sentences of "they a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 2 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 3 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 4 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 5 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 7 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 8 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 9 | ‘ That lumbar puncture seems to be taking them a long time . ’ |
| 10 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 11 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 12 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |