Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol .
2 Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office .
3 Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office
4 Many species have the aperture flared , or extended into a long tube ( siphonate forms ) .
5 Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous .
6 There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV .
7 Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege .
8 In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest .
9 These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory .
10 She watched as Dana twirled and twisted before a long mirror , making the dress shimmer with a thousand lights .
11 They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time .
12 Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend .
13 Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered .
14 ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time .
15 When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't .
16 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
17 As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion .
18 ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time .
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