Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I looked across the long row of pens . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 11 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 12 | While I appreciate the point you make about the long standing nature of your request I must advise you that there are many similar locations throughout the Region where there is inadequate space to provide a bus shelter . |
| 13 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 14 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 15 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 16 | If you find in the longer run that the process of " being in love " stops you functioning properly ( i.e. getting your college work done ) that too is something you might need to look at with some skilled help ( i.e. a skilled counsellor ) . |
| 17 | Have you gone for the longer length ? |
| 18 | I think the view you take of the longer term , erm , er , becomes individual and speculative er , as once again you 've got to erm , er , come to conclusions about inflation , about encouragement to the economy and er , you can read in many a good newspaper erm , their views on that . |
| 19 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 20 | Mind you , you see in the long run they proved that she was |
| 21 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 23 | Further work with this family is required as Darren 's weight gain is not yet sufficient for him to thrive in the long term , but it demonstrates the intensity and the long-term nature of the help required . |
| 24 | They fought with the long gate into Dobbs ' field and Tom checked that she was sheltered . |
| 25 | As they approached down the long corridor she could see George , the sacrificial dummy , slumped over the console : the bait for Forster 's trap . |
| 26 | Oh , the poor mothers , you can see how they feel during the long goodbye , the long goodbye to babies . |
| 27 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 28 | They punt for the long term , but protect incumbent management . |
| 29 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 30 | They hurried through the long arch , dodging between the workers who were making their way to London Bridge Station , and then quickly crossed St Thomas 's Street and hurried through the high , wide gates of Guy 's Hospital . |