Example sentences of "my [noun pl] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
2 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
3 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
4 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
5 | My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier . |
6 | However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time . |
7 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |