Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the seductive amusements of my youth : they have clung to me through a long life , and they are now the solace of my old age . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes skipper Geoff Boycott would come up to me during a long spell and ask if I was feeling OK to continue . |
| 3 | But no you go up town and get me this you see now she meant that sh sh you know no mampy pampying now , off you go yo you this is going to happen to you for a long time to come . |
| 4 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 5 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 6 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 7 | She was n't at all surprised , though , when Stephen spoke to her after a long telephone conversation with Robert Leyton , later that evening . |
| 8 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 9 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 10 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 11 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 12 | I shut my eyes and hold my lace to hers for a long time . |
| 13 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |