Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in October 1582 he came to my house with a long face . |
| 2 | As David Norman has pointed out , the high blood pressure needed in the body and head circuit of the Brachiosaurus , with blood being pumped all the way up to its brain along a long neck , would have caused massive bleeding in the thin blood vessels of modern reptilian lungs . |
| 3 | An invitation through Moran brought the three girls and the boy to her house for a long Sunday . |
| 4 | The Richardson boys had been visitors to her house for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 6 | Nor does it seem that systems of information retrieval will come to his help for a long time , if ever . |
| 7 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 8 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |