Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Would it be enough if you had someone to hold during the long , cold nights ? ’ |
| 5 | I looked across the long row of pens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 11 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 12 | But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this . |
| 13 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |
| 14 | This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody . |
| 15 | His large untidy head was set close to shoulders which rubbed against the long lobes of his ears . |
| 16 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 17 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 18 | While I appreciate the point you make about the long standing nature of your request I must advise you that there are many similar locations throughout the Region where there is inadequate space to provide a bus shelter . |
| 19 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 20 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |
| 21 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 22 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 23 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 24 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 25 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 26 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 27 | She stared through the long net curtains out on to the ‘ tZand , empty now in the thickening twilight , and suddenly her wariness dissolved . |
| 28 | Mind you , you see in the long run they proved that she was |
| 29 | She remained in the long druggeted corridor , a crumpled figure in a pink dressing gown watching the forests spinning madly by . |
| 30 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |