Example sentences of "by [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apples were harvested in autumn by using long poles to shake the branches of the trees , and then reduced to pulp in a cider mill , which might vary from a small hand machine to a large mill driven by horsepower . |
| 2 | The detachment forms up close to the main unit where it can offer support , either by using long range weapons such as bows or hand guns , or by employing hand-to-hand weapons to threaten an advancing enemy 's exposed flanks . |
| 3 | It may be particularly important , therefore , to aggressively target nutritional treatment at boys with Crohn 's disease , by using long term nocturnal nasogastric or gastrostomy tube feeding . |
| 4 | Owner-occupier farmers with higher annual income , who in any case spend much of their profits each year on new equipment , could still maintain their standard of living by collaborating with developers by granting long leases . |
| 5 | I think that only by maximising long periods of REM , or dream sleep , will we be able to summon up this demon of yours . |
| 6 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |
| 7 | Attendance at clinic is probably encouraged by avoiding long delays and making the visit worthwhile . |
| 8 | " Once , in the closing years of the last century , a poor woman earned her daily bread by working long hours at her treadle sewing machine . |
| 9 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |