Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 2 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 3 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 6 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 7 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 8 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 9 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 10 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 11 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 12 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 13 | sha n't want 'em for a long while |
| 14 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 15 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 16 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |