Example sentences of "they [verb] a long " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Some pact they made a long time ago . ’
3 from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying .
4 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 ’ .
5 The single Hebrew word translated ‘ when they make a long blast ’ is a common enough verb meaning to ‘ draw ’ or ‘ drag ’ .
6 They drew a long covert upwind between Queen Hoo Hall and Bramfield .
7 They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed .
8 They exchanged a long , hard look .
9 They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well .
13 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 ’ .
14 Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ?
15 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 .
16 Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism .
17 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 .
18 And they took a long time making it .
19 And they took a long time serving it .
20 They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards .
21 They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 ( They had a long argument over this . )
29 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 :
30 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 .
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