Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 2 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 3 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 4 | As with other aspects of the landscape , it was the slow , largely undocumented social and economic changes that spelt the death of such settlements , not at a single stroke but over a long period . |
| 5 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 6 | The position of the territory , situated to the northeast of Beijing , bordered to the east by Korea and with a long frontier with Russia , was somewhat ambiguous , Home of the Manchu Qing dynasty which ruled China from 1644 until its fall in 1911 , it had a distinct status shared with no other part of the empire . |
| 7 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 8 | He opened his cyanide powder and with a long spoon , fashioned from a elegant old walking cane , tipped powder down the hole . |
| 9 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 10 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 11 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 12 | In the period immediately before a race it is worth eating something sweet to provide glucose and drink plenty of fluids since in a long race you can become dehydrated and can lose up to 5lb . |
| 13 | The body itself was late medieval , not wrapped in cerecloth but in a long linen shift with a narrow hem of lace ; the features were discernible , though bald , whilst the ‘ inside of the body seemed to be filled with some substance which rendered it very hard . ’ |
| 14 | Using drugs can be dangerous , especially when they 're taken in excess or for a long time , or in the wrong combinations . |
| 15 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway best-seller for the Cambridge company . |
| 16 | Despite some rave reviews , Notes , which Lotus characterises as an enterprise but with a long sales cycle , has not been a runaway bestseller for Lotus . |
| 17 | He said motorists should check tyres every week and before a long journey . |
| 18 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 19 | By the time their neighbour had turned back , her cigarette lit and in a long ebony holder , both the children 's mouths were full of her home-made produce . |
| 20 | Kites are back in again , but they are a far cry from the diamond-shape oldies made from brown paper and with a long tail of twisted pieces of newspaper . |
| 21 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 22 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 23 | Before 18 months , a child wo n't recognise herself in the mirror and for a long time will describe herself in terms of attributes ( like smallness ) and her possessions . |
| 24 | At its surface Mercury resembles the Moon : atmosphereless , devoid of volatiles , and still bearing ancient craters because of a long history of geological quiescence . |
| 25 | imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal . |
| 26 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 27 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 28 | Delaunay , for example , violently repudiated any analogy between his own art and that of the Futurists both in an open letter to the press and in a long essay written immediately after attending a lecture given by Marinetti at the time of the first Futurist exhibition in Paris . |
| 29 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 30 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |