Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And it will need to deal with long stretches of language , rather than handfuls of utterances . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nick said , ‘ I 'll pay your air-fare and you wo n't have to worry about long train journeys . ’ |
| 9 | A biomaterial may also have to function for long periods of time in the body . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But older generations of chefs learned to cook through long apprenticeships of five to nine years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The 1.5kg device has a large enough handle to grip for long periods . |
| 15 | Foreign language learners need to enter into long stretches of communication , in real and complex situations . |