Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 32 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 33 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 34 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 35 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 36 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 37 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 38 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 39 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 40 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 41 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 42 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 43 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 44 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 45 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 46 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 47 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 48 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 49 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 50 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 51 | But really it is the crew as a whole which counts in the long run on a job like this . |
| 52 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 57 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
| 58 | His large untidy head was set close to shoulders which rubbed against the long lobes of his ears . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | But it is possible to have a covenant which lasts for a longer period , provided that the period is specified in the Deed . |