Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 2 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 3 | Do n't think that because you are on a long term site you are secure ; one has already closed in Cumbria and more could follow . |
| 4 | If you 're on a long run conditions may change from the top to the bottom ; and when you feel your skis biting through the top surface it 's time to head back to the piste before you break up the snow too much . |
| 5 | She was on a long time . |
| 6 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 7 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 8 | He says they are in a long term partnership with our local hospitals and they want to do all they can to support them . |
| 9 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 10 | B : oh they were on a long while I think before that + |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like a long drink to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 12 | But also , look as those er , those short answers , now it 's important that you answer the short answer questions well alright , because it 's , it 's a lot easier to get good marks on a short answer question , providing you do it well , than it is on a long answer question . |
| 13 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 14 | The palazzo itself will be dealt with later when the trip reaches its frontage , but it is worth a long look as you move past . |
| 15 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 16 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 17 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 18 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |