Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 2 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 3 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 4 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 5 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 6 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 7 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 8 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 9 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 10 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 11 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 12 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 13 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 14 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 15 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 16 | She gave out a long sigh . |
| 17 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 18 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 19 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 20 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 21 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 22 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |
| 23 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 24 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 25 | They go back a long way . |
| 26 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 27 | Instead was a happy medley of Luke laughing , of taking her hand as they ran up a long flight of grey stone steps towards some vague but wonderful journey 's end . |
| 28 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 29 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 30 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |