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

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1 Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome .
2 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
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Listen for its slurred , gulping notes , increasing in speed and loudness , ’ reads one report , ‘ notes which are often drawn out into a long whistling finale . ’
6 ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before .
7 You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance .
8 For it was born out of a long histtory of protest .
9 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
10 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
11 Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait .
12 I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’
13 Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams .
14 But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’
15 Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’
16 They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey .
17 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
18 Both have gone on for a long time .
19 Students often hesitate to let a rhythmic design run on for a long period , fearing monotony ; they therefore begin something different every few bars , sometimes in the belief that changing words need a constantly changing accompaniment .
20 That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load .
21 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
22 The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line .
23 Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical .
24 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 .
25 The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across .
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