Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 2 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 3 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 4 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 5 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 6 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 7 | A teacher is needed to take over a long standing recreational class at in September . |
| 8 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 9 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 10 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 11 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 12 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 13 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 14 | The present project constitutes a pilot study after which it is hoped to set up a longer term project to follow up the initial findings . |
| 15 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 16 | It is believed the money allegedly went missing over a long period , dating back to last season 's Cup Final . |
| 17 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 18 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 19 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 20 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 21 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 22 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 23 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 24 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 25 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 26 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 27 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 28 | Except , Gedanken noticed , those who had to travel quite a long way . |
| 29 | I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know . |
| 30 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |