Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 2 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 3 | Development banks tend to take a long time to evaluate a project and are likely to impose conditions such as putting out all construction and equipment contracts to competitive tender . |
| 4 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 5 | Caradryel continued to oversee the long retreat from the Old World . |
| 6 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 7 | But in reality it was a compromise designed to bring the long factional struggle about Pilger 's role to an end . |
| 8 | There was a small explosion at the ramparts several yards away , but it was nothing to worry about … only Harry trying to free the long , iron six-pounder in which the head of a French cynic , Voltaire , had become jammed … rather surprisingly , the Collector thought , a narrow , lozenge-shaped head like that ; Harry had been unable to ram the head home to the cartridge and so , according to normal procedure , was obliged to destroy the charge by pouring water down the vent ; followed by a small quantity of powder , also through the vent , to blow out his makeshift shot . |
| 9 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 10 | Disability cash pledge set to end the long wait |
| 11 | Instead , girls who marry or begin sexual congress before or around puberty tend to experience a longer interval between marriage or conjugal union and first birth than do their counterparts who marry later . |
| 12 | Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland . |
| 13 | ‘ People have to spend a long time with robot animals first . |
| 14 | Lewis plans to take a long break — in Britain — after first heading to Las Vegas to commentate for Sky TV on the November 13 title battle between reigning champion Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe that will decide his opponent next April . |
| 15 | The man who says when you need a door opened to save a long walk — ‘ It 's more than my jobsworth , mate ’ . |
| 16 | However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority . |
| 17 | That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy . |
| 18 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 19 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 20 | The Dales School at Morton on Swale near Northallerton wants to shorten the long summer holidays from six to five weeks , putting the extra week onto the summer halfterm . |
| 21 | I am particularly pleased that Aunt Alice managed to make the long journey down to Surrey from Aberdeen for this occasion , and we are all delighted that Annabelle 's sister , Sharon , flew all the way from Australia to join us and be such a charming bridesmaid . |
| 22 | In late 1919 Eliot resolved to begin a long poem . |