Example sentences of "they [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got long poles on the back step . |
| 2 | Because there would n't be the traffic generation , because you could although they argued long and hard over the ability of service vehicles to service the site . |
| 3 | We talk to hoteliers and developers on a day to day basis , we work with them as they make long term plans . |
| 4 | They make long and elegant speeches before Pandarus leads them to a chamber where they can be alone for a night ; but their words seem superficial : it is as if Rosaline had agreed to love Romeo , and he only ever experienced the satisfaction of his sexual appetite . |
| 5 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 6 | I would suggest they look long and hard at the report they have written and even longer and harder in the mirror . |
| 7 | They wave long and hard from the porch . |
| 8 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 9 | Some days er they worked longer hours and harder work and there were other days which er which erm they could n't do anything much , just potter around in the buildings . |
| 10 | in bad weather we used to go into what was it they called Long Hope or something and anchor there . |
| 11 | All large , cheerful girls in their late teens , to my great relief they wore long skirts and mats around their waists , tied as tradition dictates with a braided kiekei band . |
| 12 | The Nix 's say they thought long and hard before fostering Kenan . |
| 13 | The Nix 's say they thought long and hard before fostering Kenan . |
| 14 | They cast long shadows . |
| 15 | They have weekends off , what they call long weekends off , Friday to Monday . |
| 16 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 17 | They had long saloons with six side windows with two opening lights above each . |
| 18 | In the population census for 1991 nearly one in seven of Bassetlaw 's residents said that they had long term illnesses , health problems , or handicaps that limited their daily activities or work . |
| 19 | They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac . |
| 20 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 21 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 22 | Often , they require long term treatment simply to relearn the basics of life , like walking and talking . |
| 23 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 24 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 25 | In practice , however , heat pumps are expensive to install , they have long payback periods at current fuel prices , and there are doubts about their reliability and performance . |
| 26 | They have long incubation periods , often measured in years , but once manifested the disease usually progresses swiftly , without remission and uninfluenced by treatment , to death within a few months . |
| 27 | They have long hair and long nails and , not unnaturally , a white pallor , and very little to eat . |
| 28 | On warm days in the summer the alligators have access to a separate grassed enclosure where they spend long periods basking directly in the sun . |
| 29 | They spend long hours in the weeks before the Sale crouching at a table at a dangerous angle of 45°s ; in an airless subterranean cupboard off The Undercroft , arranging the unwanted gifts . |
| 30 | They work long hours . ’ |