Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his astonishment , Johnson yelled angrily at him and there broke out the most serious row the pair is reported ever to have had in their long association . |
| 2 | On the roof above me , the shabby light-shades shook on their long flexes . |
| 3 | Some lots were damaged or dulled by their long immersion , but this only seemed to stimulate buyers . |
| 4 | When junior hospital doctors have been asked whether their efficiency was impaired by their long hours of duty , over a third replied " often " and almost half replied " occasionally " . |
| 5 | Now , through their domination of the London Labour Party , they were running it , and they started putting into practice schemes hatched during their long hours in drab municipal offices . |
| 6 | Continuing with their long run of Bond licences , Domark released this uninspiring conversion . |
| 7 | Exclusively nocturnal birds , well adapted by their long wings and tail , large eyes and gape , and small bill and feet , to catch moths , beetles and other flying insect prey by night : seen by day only when flushed from the ground or perched on a branch ( normally horizontally along it ) , being well camouflaged by their mottled brown plumage . |
| 8 | Uzi Baram , the minister of tourism , said baldly that it was thanks to the PLO that the peace talks had now resumed after their long suspension . |
| 9 | He had died before they could marry , but she still dreamed of their long walks on the Moor and the kisses which they had exchanged when they had managed to escape from her chaperone . |
| 10 | Sir Geoff Mulcahy , the chairman and chief executive , sees a few tentative signs that shoppers are slowly emerging from their long hibernation , but they are doing so very warily . |
| 11 | It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land . |
| 12 | Children who live in ‘ insular ’ families are therefore reinforced in their long fights with their parents as this may be the only predictable response they know their parents will provide . |
| 13 | For instance , houseflies fixed so that they can only roll about their long axis , orient themselves to keep edges aligned vertically in their frontal visual field . |
| 14 | Four or five hundred yards from the black hole the trees on the slope had sagged towards each other , disturbed by the human moles working beneath their long roots . |