Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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1 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
2 | You know , you may go for a long time and not see any , then you 'll see two or three in possibly a week . |
3 | If things keep as they 're going now and she gets the services she 's getting I 've no grumbles , she 'll stop for a long while . |
4 | And my poor Clemence was about as helpless a female as you 'd find in a long day 's march . ’ |
5 | Jean was tough and liked to drink ; she would endure for a long while yet . |
6 | He would n't have time to save himself ; the splash as he entered the stream would be the most satisfying sound she would hear in a long time . |
7 | If it suits you , you can relax with a long refreshing drink on the poolside terrace — and drink in the atmosphere as well . |
8 | Next we shall look at a long solenoid filled with a high-permeability magnetic material as shown in Fig. 3.9 ( p. 73 ) . |
9 | Marc Wadsworth , the black sections national organiser , said : ‘ We can live with a long struggle . |
10 | Well they 'll last for a long time |
11 | However , if they are both read in close conjunction to each other , readers will experience strong emotions combined with a beautiful story , that they will remember for a long long time . |
12 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
13 | Does n't matter I mean , it 'll go for a long time you know . |
14 | A speed which , once it had lumbered up to it , it could maintain for a long time . |
15 | Sometimes , if he thought one of the girls did n't know what he was doing , he 'd go into a long explanation of why he had n't actually tasted the stuff . |
16 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
17 | Whilst this representation provides a very compact method of holding and handling a wide range of the common geometric forms found in engineering , it can result in a long processing time when real model edges have to be determined in complex models . |