Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
| 2 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 3 | In the afternoons , my servant , Tabby , took them for long walks on the moors behind the house . |
| 4 | ‘ You will leave them for longer than that , if I tell you , ’ Bragg said brusquely . |
| 5 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 6 | Because the racket has a diagonal string pattern , spin shots ( top spin and slice ) become easier to play , basically because the strings on such a pattern are longer and therefore the ball rests on them for longer . |
| 7 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 8 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 9 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
| 10 | She with long hair . ’ |
| 11 | Those of you with long memories will have spotted that sometimes we have recycled some of Margaret Riley 's magazine covers from over 2 years ago . |
| 12 | The fact you feel the company is exploiting you with long hours of work and low pay is no reason to exploit the company with expense abuse . |
| 13 | Those of you with long memories will remember Robert Rankin 's previous incarnation with Pan . |
| 14 | Buy a puzzle book and take it with you on long journeys in the car , or on public transport , or to use in your lunch hour at work . |
| 15 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 16 | But an element of rationing can override this tendency : when people know that their budgets will stand only a certain level of instalment payment , that forces them into longer repayment schedules than they would otherwise choose . |
| 17 | Ramses 's son called to people he knew on the banks , hailing them with long drawn-out greetings . |
| 18 | You can make up round tables from cheap wood and cover them with long cloths and changeable overcloths . |
| 19 | You can get them with long pins each si have them standing up the board and then you have another board , a board with a so you can |
| 20 | It was tacitly agreed between them from long experience . |
| 21 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |
| 22 | He connects large sheets of handmade paper into vast surfaces ( one of his works is six by fourteen feet ) and then copies out texts onto them in long , continuing penmanship . |
| 23 | 8 Get some air-bricks and put them in long grass or under bushes . |
| 24 | You may remember that in the Morecambe and Wise show he wrote six plays a day and inflicted parts in them on long suffering celebrity guests ! |
| 25 | Suspend them on long and short threads , tied to a wire coat-hanger . |
| 26 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
| 27 | And er the spoolers think they 're better than us , cos they get higher pay than us , they think it 's er they 're more skilled , it takes them to longer to train to do the job seemingly but they could n't , we have to sort their repairs again if they do anything wrong it 's us that have |
| 28 | In the decade after 1833 it became apparent that the district courts , which had original jurisdiction in all civil cases and most criminal ones , were unable to handle the litigation brought before them without long delays . |
| 29 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 30 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |