Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says he enjoys walking ; he often goes for long walks by himself . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely . |
| 3 | Highly cited papers tended to age more slowly ( i.e. maintained significant citation counts for longer periods ) than less-cited papers . |
| 4 | This allows for longer cooking to ensure it is cooked right through . |
| 5 | Because we are realising what television can not admit ; that nothing much happens for long periods of time . |
| 6 | Most of the violence happens in long shot , just like you were looking out your window or down the street . ’ |
| 7 | Since it results in long operation code fields , full bit significance is not used for operation code assignment , except at the microprogram level discussed in 3.6 . |
| 8 | A dry sleeping bag at the end of a long night watch in foul weather is something to be dreamed about , but , alas , rarely happens on long voyages . |
| 9 | Provision for synthesis often leads to long notation , for two reasons . |
| 10 | That an ethos of this kind exists at Long Lartin has , since the time of its first Governor , Bill Perrie , been widely recognized , and it is one of only two top security prisons to avoid serious control problems . |
| 11 | In the traditional industry , this calls for long landscape backgrounds that the cameraman scrolls with the action — another task in an already exhaustive list . |
| 12 | The tradition stems from long familiarity of the conductor and singers with the opera in hand and with each other 's performance , so that a unified approach can be felt on all sides . |
| 13 | In other words , the history of any one part of the earth , like the life of a soldier , consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror . |
| 14 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 15 | The company specialises in long haul holidays with off-the-beaten-track itineraries . |
| 16 | In contrast with [ 27 ] , a hearer who is presented with the repetition in [ 25 ] is encouraged to dwell on what he or she knows or imagines about long walks — the physical discomfort perhaps , or , alternatively , the exhilaration derived from the freedom . |
| 17 | The steel piston is fitted with brass piston rings which , says Hytek , makes for longer life . |
| 18 | The food industry knows from long experience that shoppers do n't act rationally . |
| 19 | The walk begins in Long Street in Cerne Abbas . |
| 20 | But we are actually running erm the the treatment works on Long Island in New York . |