Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | These fish are especially prone to ‘ conditioning ’ ; you can switch their minds onto a certain item of food and if you keep that food trickling through their swims over a long period they will continue feeding , with only short breaks , until that food runs out or some other disaster happens to move them . |
| 2 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 3 | Their more ample resources also explain why it was least common for such upper-class grandparents to share a house with their grandchildren on a longer basis . |
| 4 | The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away . |
| 5 | You 've had that pain under your ribs for a long time . |
| 6 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 7 | Overnight , as passengers slept soundly in their cabins after a long day ashore , or the more hardy danced and gave in to the temptations of the midnight buffet , the Ocean Empress had weighed anchor and begun to move south again , until , shortly after dawn , the silence of the engines pronounced her arrival in Tenerife off the west coast of Africa . |
| 8 | He held me in his arms for a long time , kissing me gently . |
| 9 | He held her in his arms for a long minute . |
| 10 | Radioactive elements remain in our bodies for a long time . |
| 11 | The dress fell straight from her shoulders to a hem midway down her shins in a long , vertical line . |
| 12 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |
| 13 | We 're just saying what 's been on our minds for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | it 'll be on your clothes for a long enough so |
| 15 | My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier . |
| 16 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |