Example sentences of "to [pron] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 2 | Erm , and therefore you 're thrown back at er finding something else , this sort of vague compromise of director of this that or this that and the other , er , er , appeared , and er it seems to me A long winded , er but also , it indicates something against what you 've already tried to do , which is to merge the two together . |
| 3 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 4 | Rules deal with such things as the use of Hansard and the extent to which the long title can be used in interpretation . |
| 5 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 7 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |