Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persuading a child to take a long course of medicine is usually a struggle , as children often dislike the taste . |
| 2 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 3 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 4 | Thus monotony and fragmentation are intimately connected , and through the need to accomplish a long series of jobs each day , a feeling of always having too much to do may be added . |
| 5 | He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production . |
| 6 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 7 | This year Bathsheba had ordered her maids to put a long table in the garden , with the top end of the table just inside the house . |
| 8 | This last is one of the first essentials of a true Suffolk ; for it was bred for use on the farm , and for use on the Suffolk farms in particular , where it was the custom for the horses to work a long day from 6.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. without nosebag or any break for rations . |
| 9 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 10 | Seb determined he would find time to have a long talk with her when his present hectic spell of work came to an end . |
| 11 | In 1823 a Shorthorn bull was exported to Buenos Aires to begin a long history of the Shorthorn influence on the South American meat trade . |