Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate . |
| 2 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 3 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 4 | Apart from ERA 's determination to find and fund a long term solution to the dampness problem and to prove that their living conditions were more suited to the health of the fungus families than human families , they were equally determined to get Public Health on the political agenda and to dispel the myth that smoking , diet and lack of exercise were solely responsible for Glasgow 's award winning heart disease record . |
| 5 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 6 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 7 | Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me . |
| 8 | The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement . |
| 9 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 10 | Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots . |
| 11 | I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge . |
| 12 | This uneven set of responses reflects the tension between the need for union negotiators to defend their members ' interests against perceived threats and their ability to generate and implement a long term strategy . |
| 13 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 14 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 15 | The pianist struck and held a long opening chord , the hubbub died away . |
| 16 | He let her go and ran a long finger across her cheek . |
| 17 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |
| 18 | I have to stop and let a long line of trolleys go by . |
| 19 | For The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe , buy or make a long cake such as a swiss roll and cut about four inches off the end . |