Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ceremony , called puja , involves the recitation of a long list of seers and gods to show the ‘ pedigree ’ of a mantra . |
| 2 | IntelliDraw is by far the most interesting drawing package to hit the market for a long time . |
| 3 | The A.87 now crosses the loch on a long causeway with a warning of high winds , but even in calm weather the former road continuing up the valley to round the head of the loch , at the cost of two extra miles , is to be preferred . |
| 4 | It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning . |
| 5 | Mr Morris added : ‘ We have pressed the Government for a long time to have a look at the hill farming situation . |
| 6 | I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one . |
| 7 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 8 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 9 | The air was permeated with Moorlake 's own particular smell , a blend of wood-smoke , of beeswax , of damp , of her aunt 's home-made potpourri in the big bowl on the table , of age , a characteristic scent of which Sara was always aware when she entered the house after a long absence but pane and , idly , Sara tried to open the window . |
| 10 | In 1987 33 per cent of the population , 35 per cent of females and 32 per cent of males , reported the presence of a long standing illness . |
| 11 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 12 | It was during the late 1770s that the long proposed Stroudwater canal became a reality and this signalled the start of a long war of words between the Company of Proprietors and the Purnells . |
| 13 | This signalled the start of a long association between Biddle and Stratford Mills , the site being adopted as his main base of operation in the Stroud area . |
| 14 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
| 15 | One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks ! |
| 16 | Carver as a learned composer , and clearly conversant with some of his English contemporaries , but it was surely worth noting that evidence , however tantalisingly fragmentary , exists to suggest the existence of a long pre-Reformation Scottish tradition of Faburden singing , of which Pater Creator might therefore be a late , indeed consciously crowning example |
| 17 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 18 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 19 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 20 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 21 | During 1992 the Board approved the introduction of a Long Term Incentive Plan which will change the manner in which Executive Directors and Senior Executives in the Group are remunerated . |
| 22 | That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing ! |
| 23 | He would n't want to flee the nest for a long time yet . |
| 24 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 25 | It takes the form of a long skyline-ridge linking five distinct summits , the whole rising abruptly and in complete isolation from a flat moorland . |
| 26 | Like Beinn Eighe , it takes the form of a long ridge with several summits , its full traverse involving a major expedition that will live in the memory for ever . |
| 27 | Gin , ice and tonic water dull the pain of a long day . |
| 28 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 29 | The mention of the put-put brings back memories of trying to start the thing after a long cold night flight — it could be a swine but invariably started eventually . |
| 30 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |