Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 32 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 33 | He looked at her and said , adopting roguishness , ‘ Would you like to come on a long journey with me ? |
| 34 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 35 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 36 | By the last decade of Henry VIlI 's reign , if not before , England was beginning to recover from a long period of population decline . |
| 37 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 38 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 39 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 40 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 41 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |
| 42 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 43 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 44 | The interior cooling recorded by contraction at the surface must have persisted over a long period . |
| 45 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 46 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 47 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 48 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 49 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 50 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 51 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 52 | A place you try to find after a long absence … |
| 53 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 56 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 57 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 58 | Several transplants have been tried before , but this is the first time they have continued to function for a long period , according to the researchers at the University of Alberta , in Edmonton . |
| 59 | I 'll see that bugger tomorrow mornin' if I have to get up at five , an , I 'll tell him what I 've meant to do for a long time ; I 'll take the can along to the authorities . |
| 60 | This is one of the best new recordings of Honegger 's music to have appeared for a long time . |