Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once launched , it unrolls and inflates in space into a long sausage-skin full of low-pressure gas . |
| 2 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 3 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 4 | Nevertheless his enthusiasm , unbounded energy and genuine passion for technology promises a period of unprecedented activity with new ideas and innovative developments not seen in Australia for a long time . |
| 5 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 6 | We walked in silence for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 9 | Now what 's funny about this place is they 're all Italians that are in there but there 's loads of them that live in this particular area , that lived in Bedford for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ I lived in America for a long time and I can see through the glossy image-making of his campaign , I think . |
| 11 | Others do stay in care for a long time . |
| 12 | University students taught in schools in the long vacations , and expatriate teachers were hired , especially in rural areas . |
| 13 | In bed that night , Evelyn and Rose talked in whispers for a long time after they were sure that everyone else was asleep . |
| 14 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 15 | We have just arrived in Peking after a long day 's travel . |
| 16 | She realized then that the coffin lid had simply been lifted off , letting in light from a long strip-light that hung from a plain rock ceiling . |
| 17 | As well as attempting to distinguish CSPs from a more general type of phonological variable ( such as that found in Durham in the long and short /a/ classes ) , Kerswill examines a certain type of lexical variable , exemplified by parts of two competing pronoun systems found in Durham City ( table 6.11 ) . |
| 18 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
| 19 | Brave Melanie Dean , of Fransham Road , Pallister Park , died in January after a long battle against cystic fibrosis . |
| 20 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 21 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | Is he aware that there will be general satisfaction with the help that he has given to St. Asaph business park , which is one of the best developments to have emerged in Rhuddlan for a long time ? |
| 23 | Emilia lay in silence for a long time , biting her lip . |
| 24 | She seemed to lie in bed for a long time before falling asleep . |
| 25 | The friar looked in surprise at the long , smoothly planed ash pole . |
| 26 | Further , under the British Code of Advertising Practice , no advertisement to the lay public is allowed in respect of a long list of diseases and conditions , including cataracts , glaucoma , kidney disease VD , tuberculosis , any heart disease , hypertension , diabetes , cancer , epilepsy and so on . |
| 27 | At the end of a roofless tunnel they found themselves standing in front of a long , high wooden counter . |
| 28 | Dogs which have lived in kennels for a long time can be particularly difficult to house-train successfully , although this is helped by the fact that they will only defecate about twice a day . |
| 29 | Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick . |
| 30 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |