Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 2 | The Trail starts at the south-east of Brighstone Forest where it meets another long distance route — the Tennyson Trail . |
| 3 | The power in the sails lifted the yacht so that she left two long trails of dark blue in the spray . |
| 4 | My unwanted guest and I spent five long days and evenings together , with the wind and rain beating on the windows . |
| 5 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 6 | In California , Diana Russell found that ‘ it was almost exclusively wives who were extremely upset and who claimed great long term effects ’ from marital rape who reported other acts of marital violence to the police , since the rape itself was not a crime . |
| 7 | First , respondents are asked if they have any long standing illness , disability or infirmity . |
| 8 | His beer arrived and he took one long sip from it , tilting his head back . |
| 9 | Is this a good idea or not , because I do some long distances at regular times . |
| 10 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 11 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |