Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Turning off the lane at a sign marked ‘ Private Road ’ , they bumped over a long , pot-holed track , climbing up towards the brow of the hill . |
| 3 | They go back a long way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers . |