Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 2 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 3 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 4 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 5 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 6 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 7 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 8 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 9 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 10 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 11 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 12 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 13 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 14 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |
| 15 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 16 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 17 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 18 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 19 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 20 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 21 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 22 | His morning swims at the Queen Mother Leisure Centre in Victoria are a vital part of his training which he describes as ‘ a treat for my body after the running ’ and , like many other runners , he will go out for a long run on a Sunday . |
| 23 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 24 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 25 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 26 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 27 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 28 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 29 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 30 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |