Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’ |
| 2 | I deny I get long holidays , that 's what I mean . |
| 3 | Then I inhale long and slowly , because it 's for me to make the move . |
| 4 | and I 've long feet you see and if I put have me feet straight up like that it er it 's pressure on it |
| 5 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 6 | I have long dream 'd of such a kind of man , |
| 7 | I have long memories of Lairg . |
| 8 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 9 | Please be patient , I work long and hard making sure these boys get there in the end . |
| 10 | Tranquilliser addiction , unlike alcohol and illegal drug addiction , is a prescribed problem which cause long term distress instead of the desired short term cure . |
| 11 | Wherever possible , statistics have been cited to condense general changes which cover long periods . |
| 12 | Strikes that are more likely to attract supplementary benefit are those involving large numbers , which last long and which are official . |
| 13 | And Gavin turned on him once more : What d' you mean ye deny ye get long holidays ? |
| 14 | Ye do n't think ye get long holidays because when you 're off from the school you 're still doing other things connected with it , making up timetables and all that . |
| 15 | Both sub-units are involved in internal security duties which demand long hours of vigilance , which must be managed carefully to avoid routine and monotony . |
| 16 | Demand for a good long read has traditionally been fed by periodicals and literary journals of all kinds which carry long stories , essays , poetry or serialised novels . |
| 17 | A neurone is a cell with a small centre from which stem long strands called axons and dendrites . |
| 18 | There are a number of birds which have long legs , long necks , and possibly long or specially shaped bills . |
| 19 | And you put long or short tour and then the numbers |
| 20 | There is plenty to do and see in the area and if you like long walks , Britain 's longest footpath , the South West Way , is on your doorstep — in total it is 560 miles long . |
| 21 | Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So you get long beep , short beep , long beep , short beep , that 's the successful switching tone , you 'll know it 's worked , and you go trotting back to your office , you get 75 seconds again , it 's like the hold , before it starts to ring , or you can access it by keying in what ? |
| 24 | He said if you fire long bursts , you risk jamming your gun , so you should get in close and fire short bursts . |
| 25 | Thereafter , prune when you see long growths taking the goodness out of the tree ; in late summer cut back all whippy shoots to 4in , then in February or March cut back again to two buds . |
| 26 | When you spend long periods studying the board the latter point becomes quite important . |
| 27 | We will consider you to be wasting ES time if you spend long or frequent periods of time talking about personal matters which have no relevance to you work for the ES . |
| 28 | Nicholas Roe concluded our conversation rather surprisingly by saying : ‘ Billingsgate is a really tough environment , you work long hours and grow old quickly . |
| 29 | When you work long hours with people , bonds are inevitably formed . |
| 30 | Sub-editors , who work long evenings , currently do a four-day week , he says . |