Example sentences of "we [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed a long , low , adobe wall . |
| 2 | Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel . |
| 3 | He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants . |
| 4 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 5 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 6 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |
| 7 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 8 | The problem simply Mr Mayor is that during the morning peak period traffic enters the city via causeway , going erm I think erm this traffic that 's coming over the is joined by local traffic from roads leading off causeway and the result of that is that er on many occasions er we get a long tailback of traffic er waiting to turn right at the junction of causeway and road . |
| 9 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 10 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | we foresaw a long downturn back in 1989 and we planned for it with re investment . |
| 12 | We wish a long and happy retirement and hope he will continue to pop in on a weekly basis to keep the Pools Syndicate going . |
| 13 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 14 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 15 | We 've a long day ahead of us tomorrow , ’ Travis agreed , but there was something in his voice that alerted Paige to the fact that he had more to say , and that it was n't particularly good news . |
| 16 | And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon . |
| 17 | However , the difference in performance between foreign- and UK-owned plants disappears if we take a longer time-span . |
| 18 | We waited a long time at Enniskillen , an RAF helicopter buzzing above the castle . |
| 19 | We waited a long time , and Charlotte wrote more advertisements . |
| 20 | We had a long journey back to Holland . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , we had a long talk , ’ Sheila said airily . |
| 22 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 23 | He came to two of my concerts and afterwards we had a long talk . |
| 24 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |
| 25 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 26 | We had a long journey . ’ |
| 27 | We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ? |
| 28 | ‘ We had a long talk when we had dinner together , ’ Haverford said out of a silence in respect of the dead . |
| 29 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 30 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |