Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a long [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People arriving in this country for such a purpose have to go through a long interview procedure to process their claims . |
| 2 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 3 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 4 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 5 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 6 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 7 | It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range . |
| 8 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 9 | Says Phil Keer : ‘ I think me and most of my friends are looking for a long term relationship . |
| 10 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 11 | His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage . |
| 12 | Whilst this representation provides a very compact method of holding and handling a wide range of the common geometric forms found in engineering , it can result in a long processing time when real model edges have to be determined in complex models . |
| 13 | I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip . |
| 14 | In one of their battles they chased each other ten times up and down the house , Beatrice armed with a long straw broom and Modigliani with a pot . |
| 15 | There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability . |
| 16 | CLOSE-UP TENDERNESS is the theme as Fergie and John Bryan share an intimate moment … watched by a long range camera |
| 17 | A horse that is fit for hunting may be unable to cope with a long schooling session . |
| 18 | I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth . |
| 19 | They had arrived outside and her cases were deposited in a long silver car that Jenna thought must be a foreign make , probably Italian . |
| 20 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 21 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 22 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 23 | Walking makes you slim , builds cardiovascular fitness , and can develop into a long term habit that you can use for the rest of your life . |
| 24 | BP 's Miller platform ; one of three included in a long term contract awarded to the division during 1992 . |
| 25 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 26 | Acyclovir may be given on a long term basis to people with HIV who have had an attack of shingles , or have frequent attacks of herpes simplex . |
| 27 | Deceleration commences with a long delay number ( 25 ) , which allows time for the rotor to swing past the equilibrium position into a position where the motor is producing the negative torque required for deceleration . |
| 28 | Deceleration commences with a long excitation period ( T1' ) to allow the rotor to move ahead of the equilibrium position and produce negative torque . |
| 29 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 30 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |