Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] long " in BNC.

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1	We get caught out with long balls to where our defender has just come from .
2	‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’
3	These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers .
4	Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) .
5	The only way in which this could happen is by chance in a small population : outsiders do come in at long odds .
6	She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her .
7	In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods .
8	The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame .
9	KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions .
10	In others it had begun to peel away in long coils .
11	avoid sitting down for long periods
12	Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break .
13	A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers .
14	There , women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches .

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