Example sentences of "[verb] long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team 's trips are organised long in advance , in minute detail . |
| 2 | Entry into the Land lies long in the past , and the task has become one of establishing a secure hold upon it . |
| 3 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
| 4 | The pause before Nicola 's husband spoke again seemed long to Dexter . |
| 5 | That makes me feel long in the tooth , gal ! ’ |
| 6 | Incidentally , he seemed to be going long in avocados . |
| 7 | Up on the flank of the Down the rabbits ' shadows were lying long across the thymy ground and the beeches on Ridgery Edge high above had caught the flat sun on their lettuce-green leaves . |
| 8 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 9 | Extreme reductionism is usually a sign of restricted outlook and it seems safe to say that sociobiology will not remain long in so puritanical a stage . |
| 10 | He also wrote some incidental theatre music for a play by Gebler , Thamos , König in Ägypten ( Thamos , King of Egypt ) , which , however , did not remain long in the repertory . |
| 11 | Well we have n't got to go long for the shortest day . |
| 12 | The dress was a little too long , but they were worn long at that time so with the help of a pin or two I was able to achieve the desired effect . |
| 13 | No they 're a bit you know long for her but they 're the same size as she was wearing Jean and the other ones were too narrow for her feet . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you staying long in Rome ? ’ asked Sophia politely — |
| 15 | it 's alright , I just wan na get my head band , mummy 's hair 's getting long at the front , I must get Sara to cut it |
| 16 | She 's also getting long in the tooth and she 's subject to migraine . |
| 17 | Yeah yeah yeah and you know what until I get started takes long for me and then I usually can get going you know but until I keep going or sometimes somebody and I say that 's it ! |
| 18 | Despite the designedly conciliatory Anglo-Scottish marriage , James had not remained long at peace with his wife 's brother . |
| 19 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 20 | RICHARD DUNWOODY has confirmed that he will ride Wo n't Be Gone Long in the Martell Grand National next Saturday . |
| 21 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | With the wind against , it was certainly playing long in the last round . |
| 23 | Because I think tha i I do n't like anything that lasts long on kids . |
| 24 | Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously ; he also turned down Balcarres 's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year . |
| 25 | In the kingdoms of western Europe there was a traditional obligation on all free men to answer the king 's call to arms , the arrière-ban , when the kingdom was attacked : a right which was rarely invoked in our period , since it produced a cumbersome and inefficient force , which could not be kept long in the field . |
| 26 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 27 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 28 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 29 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |
| 30 | Then there were occasions that could be predicted long in advance . |