Example sentences of "[vb base] in [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | I said I would drive into the country , lie in the long grass and watch the sun go down until it was quite dark . |
2 | She watched her mother smooth her hair back from her brow , draw in a long breath , then say , ‘ Well , well ! |
3 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
4 | On the other side , what did Innocent or the papacy lose in the long struggle ? |
5 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
6 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
7 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
8 | I would say that it is our job to let people judge for themselves and have the opportunity to see controversial productions , whether it 's dance or drama , and unless people have the opportunity , and unless the companies are given the chance to perform their own thing , that drama and dance in the long run will die . |
9 | The sun , making a guest appearance between frowning petrol-blue clouds , floodlit the dog daisies and hogweed in the long grass and turned the pitch a stinging viridian . |
10 | The only sign of fear was a nervous tremble in the long spindly legs . |
11 | If you find in the longer run that the process of " being in love " stops you functioning properly ( i.e. getting your college work done ) that too is something you might need to look at with some skilled help ( i.e. a skilled counsellor ) . |
12 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
13 | Providing an answer only for the surface doubt answers neither doubt in the long run . |
14 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
15 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
16 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
17 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
18 | Unfortunately , local managers often think in the short term , whereas senior managers think in the longer term . |
19 | Who can blame them when most traditional methods of weight control fail in the long term ? |
20 | Diets often fail in the long term because they are too demanding on will-power . |
21 | as in Tarrow and Suleiman. that in so far as group interests are expressed or mobilised through institutions that survive in the long term . |
22 | ( b ) they are more efficient and thus save you time and work in the long term . |
23 | Mind you , you see in the long run they proved that she was |
24 | But how well do these savings accounts perform in the longer term ? |
25 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
26 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |