Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 62 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 63 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 64 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |
| 65 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 66 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 67 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 68 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
| 69 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 70 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 71 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 72 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 73 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 74 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 75 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 76 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 77 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 78 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 79 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 80 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 81 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 82 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 83 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 84 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 85 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 86 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 87 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 88 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 89 | That went on for a long time . |
| 90 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |