Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 3 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 4 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 5 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 6 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 7 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 8 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 9 | He walked swiftly to the reception counter midway down a long hall leading to Dover Street . |
| 10 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 11 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 12 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 13 | I do have some sympathy for cou councillor I do know this area and I I do know the traffic problems there and and we do really in the long term need to do something about it . |
| 14 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |
| 15 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |