Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 2 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 3 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 4 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 5 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 7 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 8 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 9 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 10 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 11 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 12 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 13 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 14 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 15 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 16 | The major disadvantage of this form of dictatorial power balance occurs with the death of the chief ; which is usually followed by a long , painful period of restructuring whereby the balance is restored . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the army , despite the FMLN 's truce offer of Sept. 14 , was still engaged in a long push against guerrilla strongholds , and a major FMLN counter-offensive was not ruled out . |
| 18 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 19 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 20 | Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair . |
| 21 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 22 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 23 | This served with 28 Squadron under 5 Wing and was later stored for a long time at 15 Air Depot at Snake Valley , adjacent to Swartkop before going to serve with the MEFS at Bloemspruit . |
| 24 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 25 | Sometimes they were reduced to shirt-like softness ; often replaced by a long coat . |
| 26 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |
| 27 | The foundations were now securely laid for a long period of prosperity rising to a peak in the early fourth century , if one can judge from the mansion-type houses in the towns and countryside . |
| 28 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 29 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 30 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |