Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Trudgill ( 1986 : 18 ) draws attention to the reluctance of North of England speakers , for whom a long /a : / in dance is part of the Southern stereotype , to accommodate to this vowel , even though it is one that already exists in their system in words like half and dark . |
| 2 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 3 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 4 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 5 | The Old Library , of which the long Room forms the main part , was built between 1712 and 1732 . |
| 6 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 7 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
| 8 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 9 | The same thing happens with Pele 's tears ; they draw off behind them a long hair-like tail of glass , which may be a metre or more long . |
| 10 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
| 11 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 12 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 13 | You have been with her a long time . ’ |
| 14 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 15 | In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue . |
| 16 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 17 | Have you remarked , where a fast-flowing stream comes to a little fall , how the racing water becomes glassy smooth and under it the long fine threads of the water-weed are drawn along in its still-seeming race , trembling a little , but stretched out in the flow ? |
| 18 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 19 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 20 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 21 | If F L is the price of the index future in which a long position is taken , while F s is the price of the index future in which a short position is adopted , the intercommodity spread basis is F L - F s = ( S L - D L ) ( 1 + r L ) - ( S s - D s ) ( 1 + r S ) . |
| 22 | In this case , the spread ratio equals the price of the future in which a long position is taken ( F l ) , divided by the price of the future in which a short position is taken ( F s ) , that is , p = F l /F s . |
| 23 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 24 | What the historian is trying to do is not merely to record the events and happenings of war , but to study them against the background of the world in which the long Anglo-French conflict was fought . |
| 25 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
| 26 | Before her the long straight reach of the canal lay like a silver ribbon . |
| 27 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 28 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 29 | With difficulty she repressed comments on the writer 's own linguistic proficiency , and how in her view it disabled him from judging Walter 's scholastic achievements ; with difficulty , too , she refrained from rebutting the idea that she was not getting any younger , for that was precisely what she felt she was getting , these days ; and she ended with best wishes for the future , mentally hoping it would not be for him a long one . |
| 30 | Has known about her a long time . |