Example sentences of "[pron] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It does worry me the longer it goes on without one . |
| 2 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 3 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 4 | The old man was shouting hoarsely , and someone a long way off was answering — and running , too , for she could feel the vibration of rapid footsteps . |
| 5 | Took my a long while ago . |
| 6 | You 've had yours a long t a minute ago cos I 've picked it up for somebody else . |
| 7 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 8 | The Old Library , of which the long Room forms the main part , was built between 1712 and 1732 . |
| 9 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 10 | What the historian is trying to do is not merely to record the events and happenings of war , but to study them against the background of the world in which the long Anglo-French conflict was fought . |
| 11 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 12 | Rules deal with such things as the use of Hansard and the extent to which the long title can be used in interpretation . |
| 13 | Also that each card , a slip should be inserted , and following competitors of the whole at which the longest driving will take place , where the fifteenth tee is sited . |
| 14 | In such cases TRACE tends to prefer parses in which the longer word comes first . |
| 15 | The Stewarts reigned for 333 years , through 7 Scottish kings , a queen ( Mary Queen of Scots ) , and 7 monarchs of Great Britain , making theirs the longest monarchical dynasty ever to rule in these islands . |
| 16 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 17 | If F L is the price of the index future in which a long position is taken , while F s is the price of the index future in which a short position is adopted , the intercommodity spread basis is F L - F s = ( S L - D L ) ( 1 + r L ) - ( S s - D s ) ( 1 + r S ) . |
| 18 | In this case , the spread ratio equals the price of the future in which a long position is taken ( F l ) , divided by the price of the future in which a short position is taken ( F s ) , that is , p = F l /F s . |
| 19 | She was too tired to be aware of much except the slight headache which a long journey always gave her , yet she felt curiously light-headed and carefree . |
| 20 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 21 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 22 | No , no , no , the longer you the longer you let something like that ride |
| 23 | Do n't do anything yet , I shall get John to write you a long technical letter . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ it 's not too easy to answer without giving you a long lecture on the structure of the body . ’ |
| 25 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 27 | If you do n't know them it 's going to take you a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 30 | Er a pair of shoes if you bought it had to last you a long long time . |