Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a very long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 2 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 3 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 5 | The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy . |
| 6 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 7 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 8 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 9 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 10 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 11 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 12 | But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping |
| 13 | but he 's got a long inside leg measurement , he says yes I 've got a very long inside measur leg measurement , I 'm thirty one inside leg and I thought |
| 14 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had a very long and happy life without sex . |
| 16 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 17 | So they 've kept a very long time . |
| 18 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 19 | He 's had a very long and trying ordeal , and apart from his physical injuries he 's had the cold and damp to deal with too , so his body 's had a pretty severe challenge . |
| 20 | ‘ We have got a very long and relevant association with football which is the nation 's number one sport . |