Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt his chest rise and fall on a long , slightly unsteady intake of breath . |
| 2 | Particularly significant changes are found for residues located on the long E helix ( Glu 204 and Phe 208 ) . |
| 3 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 4 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 5 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 6 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 7 | He looked at her and said , adopting roguishness , ‘ Would you like to come on a long journey with me ? |
| 8 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 9 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 10 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 11 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 12 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 14 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 15 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 16 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 17 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 18 | I 'm sure your husband appreciated from afar the care and ‘ antics ’ of you and your friends , the personal and loving touch that one would give to any loved one going on a long journey . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 20 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 21 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 22 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 23 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 24 | The film opened on a long lingering shot of sponsors ' lorries . |
| 25 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 26 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 27 | This way the buyer need not fear a situation in which the supplier will run out of essential stock , and the supplier can plan on the long term to optimise his conditions of supply . |
| 28 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 29 | The sun shone on the long road to the south . |
| 30 | Maidstone Prison has embarked on a long and costly process to bring integral sanitation to cells , to avoid the ‘ slopping out ’ process and the need to have chamber pots in cells . |