Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 5 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 6 | A 12 volt battery is really essential for the mechanical action of the trimmer to work effectively over a long period . |
| 7 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 8 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 9 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 11 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 12 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 13 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 14 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 15 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 16 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 17 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 18 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 19 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 20 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 21 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 22 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 23 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 24 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 25 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 26 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 27 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 28 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 29 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 30 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |