Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " 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 were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window .
6 We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point .
7 ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear .
8 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 .
9 For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair .
10 Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss .
11 The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy .
12 In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation .
13 Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome .
14 This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day .
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16 He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes .
17 After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse .
18 France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity .
19 B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time .
20 The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk .
21 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 .
22 BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey .
23 Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector .
24 One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey .
25 Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success .
26 Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ?
27 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
28 ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest .
29 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
30 Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks .
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