Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 2 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 4 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 5 | I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank . |
| 6 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 7 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 8 | She was my friend for a long time because we got on really well together . |
| 9 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 10 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 11 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | One day in October 1582 he came to my house with a long face . |
| 16 | It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time . |
| 17 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 18 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Usually , riders use all their body in a long ascent , willing strength from every limb into the legs . |
| 21 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 22 | She stood up and twisted her hair round her head in a long rope , pinning it high . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ This success has been achieved as a result of the hard work by LASMO 's staff and its partners over a long time . |
| 26 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 27 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 28 | New colour sections on antique furniture — an important addition considering the buoyancy of such pieces at auction today — clocks , silver , glass , pottery and porcelain will prove their worth for a long time . |
| 29 | As David Norman has pointed out , the high blood pressure needed in the body and head circuit of the Brachiosaurus , with blood being pumped all the way up to its brain along a long neck , would have caused massive bleeding in the thin blood vessels of modern reptilian lungs . |
| 30 | If the prey can themselves move , the predator will have to be able to move faster , or with sufficient stealth that it can catch its prey without a long chase . |