Example sentences of "and [vb base] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 2 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 3 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 4 | We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge … |
| 5 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 6 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 7 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |