Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 2 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |
| 3 | They live modestly on income from securities that Edhi bought a long time ago . |
| 4 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 5 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 6 | Ralph Glaber reports that Cnut fought a long war against Malcolm and the Scots , that they were eventually reconciled through Emma and Richard of Normandy , and that he received Malcolm 's ( otherwise unknown ) son from the baptismal font . |
| 7 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 8 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 9 | Her face was pale and her voice was as cool as ever , but there was sincerity in her eyes , and Sophie drew a long breath and put out her hand . |
| 10 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 11 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 12 | He and Claudia spent a long time talking to the police and to the accused man . |
| 13 | The banks of computers were busy , and together Viktor and Gusev read the long print-outs and the cross-references and the counterchecks on the information . |
| 14 | Netzer and Sagiv designed a long chain molecule with a reactive chemical group at one end ad an inert group at the opposite end . |
| 15 | There was a hissing sound and Dhani drew a long silver shadow out of the black one . |
| 16 | But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 18 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 19 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 20 | They were pulled into the stewards room after the race as officials took a long look at an incident early in the straight.A ban would have ruled the pair out of the Cambridgeshire and the Arc , but no action was taken . |
| 21 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |