Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 2 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 3 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 4 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 5 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 6 | petals strongly and sweetly perfumed , retained over a long period when dried , used in perfumery , potpourris , for perfuming writing paper . |
| 7 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 8 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 9 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 10 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 11 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 12 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It let out a long clang . |
| 15 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 16 | Evans let out a long whistle . |
| 17 | Ellen Harker let out a long breath and relaxed visibly . |
| 18 | He let out a long breath and raised his hands to cover both ears . |
| 19 | He let out a long breath then turned to look at Hitch . |
| 20 | Hans let out a long breath . |
| 21 | Harry let out a long breath . |
| 22 | He let out a long breath . |
| 23 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 24 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 25 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 26 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 27 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 28 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 29 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 30 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |