Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] 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 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’ |
| 5 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |