Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] long [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |
| 2 | I remember the long faces in the Tontine Coffee House at Glasgow Cross on the morning of 27 January 1783 when the news broke . |
| 3 | Immediately after leaving SIS , I took a long holiday in Italy . |
| 4 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 5 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 6 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 7 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 8 | First , an investor who holds a long position in shares which are overpriced can sell them and buy the relatively underpriced index future ( a swap or stock replacement ) . |
| 9 | Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën ? |
| 10 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 11 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 12 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 13 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 14 | In August we had a long weekend in the Lakes , with Rob , Joyce & Ewan which went well , & also a week in Telford with Richard which we thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 15 | We had a long debate in Committee on sustainable development . |
| 16 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 17 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 18 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |
| 19 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 20 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
| 21 | The consequence of excommunication for Jacob was economic isolation : he was forced to give up his trade ( also shoemaking ) and was given redress for this when he petitioned the Long Parliament in 1640 . |
| 22 | He had a long career in the university , becoming bachelor and then ( c .1284 ) doctor of theology as well as master c .1290 . |
| 23 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |