Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 2 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 3 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 6 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 7 | The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it . |
| 8 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 9 | She 's got a much longer face than me , the ideal face . |
| 10 | But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’ |
| 13 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 16 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 23 | If nothing else , it has cast a mighty long shadow down the years . |
| 24 | ‘ He stated it had all started a very long time ago when he was serving in the army in India and he admitted to still being sexually frustrated . ’ |
| 25 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So they 've kept a very long time . |
| 30 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |