Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 2 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 3 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 4 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 5 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 6 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 7 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 9 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 10 | I looked across the long row of pens . |
| 11 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 12 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 13 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 14 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 15 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 16 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 17 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 18 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 19 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 20 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 21 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 22 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 23 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 24 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 25 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 26 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 28 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 29 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |