Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to him , pressing her mouth to his in a long , drugging kiss , while her hands slid tantalisingly over his hips in a blatant invitation . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 4 | I know we 're all very upset by what 's happened here , but damaging your career now wo n't help you in the long run . ’ |
| 5 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 6 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 7 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 8 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 9 | ‘ If they continually try to buck the system , the system will destroy them in the long run . |
| 10 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 11 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 12 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 13 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 14 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 15 | For she was old when Tabitha Jute first set eyes upon her , when she dragged the tarpaulins from her in the long grass of that neglected vineyard . |
| 16 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 17 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 18 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
| 19 | It may be expensive , but is worth it in the long run . |
| 20 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 21 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 22 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 23 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 24 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |
| 25 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 26 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 27 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 28 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 29 | And people have heard it which I think helps us in the long run . |