Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 2 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But we also expect to benefit from longer term opportunities in other potential markets . |
| 4 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 5 | And it will need to deal with long stretches of language , rather than handfuls of utterances . |
| 6 | This state of affairs has resulted in long periods of civil war beginning soon after independence . |
| 7 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 8 | Frankly there just is n't the money to go around , and kids are being made to suffer for long periods of time er for operations which really could be done if only they had the money . |
| 9 | An annual briefing on cable break procedures and other emergencies would be very valuable for everyone who flies gliders , and particularly those who stop flying for long periods over the winter months and so get badly out of practice . |
| 10 | During interrogation some detainees were made to kneel for long periods , in some cases on bottle tops and pebbles , and received severe beatings on their backs , the soles of their feet and hands . |
| 11 | If the fundamentalist factions drop their differences to form a coalition , they could sweep the board : a prospect dreaded by many Algerians who do not want to emerge from long years of joyless socialism only to face even more joyless Islamic militancy . |
| 12 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 13 | Nick said , ‘ I 'll pay your air-fare and you wo n't have to worry about long train journeys . ’ |
| 14 | A biomaterial may also have to function for long periods of time in the body . |
| 15 | Lambing time usually coincided with the busy spring work resulting in the full-time farm wives having to put in long hours , often in poor weather conditions . |
| 16 | Wind also has a profound effect on plant growth in the Western Isles in that is usually salt-laden , particularly when it has come from the west or south-west , having passed over long distances of wave-tom ocean . |
| 17 | Go searching through long lists of file names to find what you 're after . |
| 18 | They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish . |
| 19 | But older generations of chefs learned to cook through long apprenticeships of five to nine years . |
| 20 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 21 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 22 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 23 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 24 | She had suffered during long bouts of Hopper 's depression , rages and his obsession with James Dean . |
| 25 | They had turned to longer films to attract better audiences and the device of the fiction film not only served to head off the challenge of reformers but also guaranteed an exclusive hold on mass audiences . |
| 26 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 27 | The issue of two-year degrees had led to long discussions on the Council . |
| 28 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 29 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 30 | The 1.5kg device has a large enough handle to grip for long periods . |