Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 2 | ‘ He could stay in hiding a long while before we flushed him out . ’ |
| 3 | Our drift out of nationhood — a collective , willed political identity — into a reality we could not shape nor even talk about began a long time ago . |
| 4 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 5 | If set at 3° , they assisted in providing a long cruising range for reconnaissance duties , an F.24 camera often being fitted for such operations . |
| 6 | If you 're thinking of tackling a long distance footpath staying at youth hostels and guest houses , then this size sack is ideal as your load is mainly bulky spare clothing rather than weighty hardware . |
| 7 | The basic technique is called run length coding and works by replacing a long run of unchanging data by the shortest possible code . |