Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has a long coachroof of medium height and a short-ended hull on which no attempt has been made to distort the lines . |
| 2 | She has a long association with the scouting movement and is president of the East Middlesbrough scout executive . |
| 3 | In the hall she wraps a long scarf round her neck and puts on a cream-coloured quilted cotton jacket , with wide shoulders and inset sleeves , and lets herself out by the front door . |
| 4 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 5 | Nicetius of Trier threatened to excommunicate Theudebert I for adultery , and he frequently excommunicated Chlothar I. He heads a long line of saints who dared to challenge the Merovingians on their sexual profligacy . |
| 6 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
| 7 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
| 8 | He has a long involvement with the Institute stretching back over four decades and until recently was Chairman of the Membership Board as well as being Senior Vice President . |
| 9 | He has a long list of Parliamentary posts , including chairing the Parliamentary panel on charity law , acting as deputy chairman of the foreign affairs forum and secretary of both the back bench arts committee and smaller businesses committee . |
| 10 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 11 | It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland . |
| 12 | It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 . |
| 13 | It has a long body with overlapping scales , with a concentration of fins at the hind end . |
| 14 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 15 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 17 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 18 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
| 19 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 20 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 21 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
| 22 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 23 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
| 24 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
| 25 | He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems a long time since this morning . ’ |
| 27 | Never allow a water pump to suck in air if it feeds a long length of pipework to a system of tanks or ponds . |
| 28 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 29 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |