Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 3 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 4 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 5 | Memories of the last will linger for a long time to come . |
| 6 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ We are confident we will still be operating for a long time to come . |
| 8 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 10 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 11 | This way the buyer need not fear a situation in which the supplier will run out of essential stock , and the supplier can plan on the long term to optimise his conditions of supply . |
| 12 | She 's two exhausted after the long journey to go shopping.She just wants to go home . |
| 13 | First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . |
| 14 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 15 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 16 | Hilary 's away for the day — gone on a long hike to tune himself up , as he put it . |
| 17 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 18 | Despite joining the ILP in 1907 , he continued for a long time to write leaders for Liberal journals . |
| 19 | It seems doubtful that any strong moral reaction can now set in although some backlash is already evident ; a dissident minority and a good many of the elderly will continue for a long time to object to what they see as moral decay . |
| 20 | Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means . |