Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Lowe ( Public Assistance Officer ) has had long talks with him and is convinced that the man is not normal ; he continually contradicts himself and his great joy is getting publicity . |
| 2 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |
| 3 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 4 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 5 | Development of an All Wales Strategy has involved long discussions at county level between social services department personnel , representatives from voluntary organisations , parents and sometimes consumers . |
| 6 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 7 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
| 8 | Wee begin owr long March to Wimble wembley next tuesday when we take on hifiying Clutton Town in the preliminary liminary first Qualifying Round of the Fa cup . |
| 9 | When the flaking is done skilfully , only light hand pressure with a piece of wood is needed to detach long slivers of material which can themselves be used as knives . |
| 10 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |
| 11 | We can not afford to overlook the cruel irony enacted by the racist regime of freeing one generation of fighters from the sixties and seventies , while proceeding to serve long sentences on a new generation of fighters of the eighties . |
| 12 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 13 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 14 | Solitary dolphins have been known to spend long periods around human settlements , encounters which attest to their humour , playfulness , curiosity and gentleness , and their readiness to help humans in distress . |
| 15 | Recently , one of the Orandas started to spend long spells at the water surface . |
| 16 | Tertiary , prevention … would aim at avoiding the worst consequences of a child actually having to spend long periods in substitute care . |
| 17 | However , despite this law and despite the publicity following the Hussainara case , many magistrates continue to authorize long extensions at the request of the police . |
| 18 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 19 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 20 | Health watchdogs fear the Government 's NHS reforms could mean hundreds of hospital patients will have to travel long distances for treatment . |
| 21 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 22 | Similarly , other Rowdies who have been shown to have given long service through organizing or chant leading might also have a chance of making the grade . |
| 23 | My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age . |
| 24 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 25 | Foreign investors would be allowed to take long leases on land , and the under-utilised port would be thrown open to foreign traders . |
| 26 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
| 27 | Nkrumah continued to despatch long letters of brotherly advice to the Prime Minister of the Congo but the situation had passed beyond both of them . |
| 28 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 29 | Too late I thought of adding , ‘ On oath , my lord ? ’ , for I have never seen a more striking example of the perils of what the law calls ‘ fleeting identification ’ , and this from a witness to whom I was not a total stranger and who himself , both as counsel and judge , had had long experience in assessing the worth of ID witnesses in court . |
| 30 | Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses . |