Example sentences of "and [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you say Deauville now , people will say ‘ where ? ’ and pull their beards and make long faces . |
| 2 | Earlier in the day Eric had begun to fake a bad stomach ache and made long and numerous trips to the lavatory . |
| 3 | This currently accounts for around two thirds of P&O Roadtanks ' UK business and involves long term contracts of between three and five years . |
| 4 | Consortium Developments Ltd , a company established by Bovis , Barratt , Wimpey and Beazer , was behind the spectre of Stone Bassett and fought long and hard for permission to develop an area of 12,000 acres and build 6,000 houses . |
| 5 | There is an essential interdependency between businesses and we must strive to build a partnership with our customers and to establish long term relationships with them . |
| 6 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 7 | There is no doubt about the malignant potential of adenocarcinoma , but the behaviour of gastric carcinoids is more obscure and needs long term observation . |
| 8 | The machairs , gently undulating shell sand deposits , and their associated dune systems cover about 120 square kilometres and occupy long stretches of the western sea-board of South Uist , Benbecula and North Uist . |
| 9 | He did n't know who he was talking to , but believed , from films he had seen , that R.C. priests drank whisky and told long stories ; that could be useful at the present juncture . |
| 10 | Applicants clearly have a better chance of obtaining accommodation quickly if willing to accept a dwelling in one of the main settlements , and this in turn may be detrimental and cause long journeys to work . |
| 11 | The Council is to be congratulated for thinking and acting long term . |
| 12 | Two other groups were in residence , along with a handful of loners who had a tendency to sit apart from any gathering , dress in dark clothes with large hats , and smoke long pipes . |
| 13 | Somewhere to loll and lounge and enjoy long suppers around the farmhouse table by the light of a paraffin lamp on late summer evenings . |
| 14 | In fact , competition has been reduced , prices have rocketed , thousands of public house tenants have been forced out of the trade and thousands more have felt that they have no reasonable option other than to accept the terms being imposed upon them by the brewers and accept long leases at enormously increased rents , with full responsibility for repairs . |
| 15 | No polishing is needed , and as long as the seal remains intact , the floor will look good and give long service . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that many had progressive chronic renal failure , as at two year follow up only one patient had subsequently deteriorated and needed long term dialysis . |
| 17 | Weight loss is common , as are the obvious physical signs of needle track marks ( and wearing long sleeves to hide them ) , and the perpetually sore , running nose of someone who has a sniffing habit . |
| 18 | The horse puts its head high in the air , muzzle uppermost , and curls back the upper lip and sniffs long and noisily through its squashed nostrils . |
| 19 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 20 | During the period of his studies , he was laid low by tuberculosis , and spent long periods in the sanatorium undergoing treatment . |
| 21 | She was often bored and spent long hours watching television . |
| 22 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 23 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 24 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 25 | They go to amusement arcades , and start a poetry magazine , and buy pornographic books , and release long streamers of lavatory paper from the top of the Pan-Am building to see whose will be carried further by the wind as it falls . |
| 26 | MIT reduces the trauma of an operation and avoids long hospital stays and recovery periods . |
| 27 | Or the languid treble clef at the bar , clasping and reclasping long fingers , who , feeling herself stared at , removed dark glasses to fire hatred ? |
| 28 | Whilst Ranulf and Maltote stayed with the horses and pulled long expressions so they could join the mourners , Corbett strode across the leaf-strewn village green and through the wicket gate of the church . |
| 29 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |
| 30 | Particular attention is paid to the methodological problems of identifying and linking long distance migrants over time in origin and destination areas and the project appraises the use of computer linkage techniques in historical research . |