Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 2 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 3 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 4 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 5 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 7 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 8 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 9 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 10 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 11 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 12 | And I and when you 've had it a long time you |
| 13 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 14 | Well you , I mean to say that I 've had mine a long time and you ai n't done much mileage on it . |
| 15 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 16 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 17 | Great , they last me a long time |
| 18 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 19 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 20 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 21 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 22 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 23 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 24 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 25 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 26 | And now , with the way that the human take it to the medical profession for giving them a longer life expectancy , thirty percent of people are diseased . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't forget who you 're talking to here — I 've known you a long time , remember ? |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ it 's not too easy to answer without giving you a long lecture on the structure of the body . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 30 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |