Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 2 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 3 | John and I had long discussions on planning applications , I shall be interested to hear |
| 4 | I have long memories of Lairg . |
| 5 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 6 | A comparable phenomenon has been described in a transgenic mouse model which produces long segments of HBsAg including pre S 1 proteins and which eventually develops distorted ground glass hepatocytes very similar to thsoe in the present liver transplant recipients . |
| 7 | The cards were presented in a random sequence using examples from the Gelleman Series , which avoids long runs of identical R or L stimuli , given below : |
| 8 | The cards were presented in a random sequence using examples from the Gelleman Series , which avoids long runs of identical R or L stimuli , given below : |
| 9 | Both sub-units are involved in internal security duties which demand long hours of vigilance , which must be managed carefully to avoid routine and monotony . |
| 10 | To summarise , we used a large lexicon and a sizeable number of utterances , to test an heuristic which preferred long words over short ones , and found that the strategy reduced the number of word paths in all cases . |
| 11 | Some years later , when it was apparent that my daughter would not recover from her poliomyelitis , I felt that it would no longer be possible to continue serving in the Royal Navy , which entailed long periods of separation from my home . |
| 12 | Against this Foucault contrasts the work of the Annales school which analyses long continuities in certain social forms : |
| 13 | She writes long sentences without verbs , as if the rocky terrain inevitably makes action difficult . |
| 14 | By 1907 rheumatoid arthritis had almost crippled her and she suffered long periods of inactivity , but refused either to move to the comfort of Duke Town or to return to Britain . |
| 15 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 16 | Most bandsaws , for example , have a table considerably above the common machine table height which may enable you to cast long jobs above other machines . |
| 17 | Sometimes she rests long minutes in the grass forest |
| 18 | It was n't a very happy family , her father , who worked long hours as an engineer , hit her mother and sometimes the children too , but he never hit Noreen . |
| 19 | ‘ I would love to shoot from a blimp — a lovely , solid platform that would let you get long exposures at night . |
| 20 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |
| 21 | Sometimes she wrote long letters in French to Monsieur Héger , but no letters came from him . |
| 22 | When you work long hours with people , bonds are inevitably formed . |
| 23 | This does not apply to those people who spend long periods of time in institutions which they are powerless to leave and with little or no freedom of choice … children 's homes , boarding schools , prisons , mental hospitals , homes for people with disabilities . |
| 24 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 25 | Two of the issues which stand out most clearly from staff responses to the assessment are ( i ) that we must provide training in the health and safety aspects of workstation use , and ( ii ) that we must provide information to staff on the procedures for eyesight testing for those staff who spend long periods in front of display screens . |
| 26 | ‘ We enjoyed long periods of possession , but if you ca n't put the ball in the net that does n't count , ’ he added . |
| 27 | We spent long hours in stationary trains in railway-sidings , in grey towns under greyer skies . |
| 28 | We had long discussions about whatever we liked , and during term-time Don Cattabianchi would sometimes help us with our homework . |
| 29 | In Committee , we had long discussions about that , and were genuinely sympathetic to the worries expressed by the citizens advice bureaux . |
| 30 | As a bank , we have long experience of businesses and their needs , which is essential when it comes to providing pensions for directors and people who are self-employed and insurance cover . |