Example sentences of "[noun prp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wish Geoff and his wife Ivy a long and happy retirement . |
| 2 | ‘ Is Scotland a long way ? ’ |
| 3 | There is in Scotland a long tradition of a lawyer acting on a ‘ speculative ’ basis , whereby the lawyer will be paid the normal fee if the case is successful , but if the case is lost he or she will be paid nothing . |
| 4 | Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages . |
| 5 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |
| 6 | He gave Zen a long , level look , daring him to deny it . |
| 7 | BILLY BREMNER : ( Leeds , Hull , Doncaster and Scotland — 1959-81 ) : ‘ He was a hero at Elland Road a long time before I came into football . |
| 8 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 9 | While she was chopping she said , ‘ You 've known Ian a long time ? ’ |
| 10 | It has taken Andrew Murray a long time to do it . |
| 11 | At Iddo Island a long wooden building with a central gable and flanking verandas dominated the station complex , while on the northern extension the stations were all squat rectangular stone structures with a round-arched loggia on all four sides and with the name of the station sculpted on an entablature rising from the middle . |
| 12 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you known Harvey a long time ? ’ |
| 14 | It took Baba Yaga a long time to struggle through the bushes , — but at last she did so and came after them as before , crying , " Hoo ! |
| 15 | We all wish Adam a long and happy retirement . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't sack a man because of his friends , ’ he said forthrightly , ‘ and Caretaker 's family have been in Medewich a long time . |
| 17 | A system invented by Noah a long time ago , practised only by us . |
| 18 | Nick , do you remember what I told you about Oliver a long time ago ? |
| 19 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's right , Faye , ’ Tom came in , after giving Belinda a long , frowning stare that made her words threaten to dry in her mouth . |
| 21 | It will take Iain a long time to come to terms with his conviction . |
| 22 | In the sanctuary of Hera on Samos a long base ( fig. 31 ) bore , between a seated and a reclining figure , four standing , three certainly and perhaps the fourth too girls of varying age , each grasping her skirt in her right hand and holding it out , so that the folds curve and it is drawn tight against the left leg . |
| 23 | It allowed Nicholas a long , hard night 's sleep , followed by a splitting headache in the morning . |
| 24 | I know that his many friends and family , as well as those who have only recently met him , think that this must be one of those marriages that are made in heaven , and will want to join me in wishing Steven and Annabelle a long and happy married life together . |
| 25 | The look on Martin Bean 's face stayed with Nick a long time . |
| 26 | In Gascony a long and desultory campaign , led by the Black Prince and the duke of Lancaster , culminated in a notable success only in 1347 , by which time a new theatre of war had been opened in Normandy . |
| 27 | Informed sources say that Texas Instruments Inc had Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS Unix running on the superscalar Viking Sparc a long time ago , but when schedules for the long overdue part began to slip , it clammed up , leaving the grapevine to hum with negative vibes . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 29 | ‘ I left Plumford a long time ago . ’ |
| 30 | It has generally been thought a manifestation of the taste which in the immediately following period adapted many fabulous monsters from the East ; but it has no close eastern parallels , and the discovery of the Lefkandi Centaur pushes back the concept in Greece a long way . |