Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the long drive they were understandably tired , yet for some reason Stirling failed to post sentries . |
| 2 | For a long minute they seemed as one , then , abruptly , the spell was broken . |
| 3 | For a long time they just held each other there under the stars . |
| 4 | For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle . |
| 5 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 6 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 7 | For a long time they did not speak . |
| 8 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 9 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 10 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 11 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 12 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 13 | For a long time they thought it might have been dysentery , but thank goodness it did n't turn out to be that serious . |
| 14 | For a long moment they stood facing each other . |
| 15 | For a long moment they gazed silently into each other 's eyes , and she felt the familiar tug of longing deep in her stomach . |
| 16 | He turned to look at her again , and for a long moment they stared at each other , irreconcilable strangers either side of a barrier ; and yet Sara had the odd feeling that some part of her longed to understand Matthew Preston , to agree with him , to acquiesce in his decisions . |
| 17 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 18 | For a long moment they both stopped eating , and looked across the table at each other . |
| 19 | For a long moment they lay and she gazed down at him , their eyes locked . |
| 20 | In the long run they will have to bear the consequences of an unrealistic and immature child . |
| 21 | Equally , if we conclude that other presuppositions are not true , we can be sure that in the long run they will not prove satisfactory either , and we should root them out . |
| 22 | In the long run they are incorrect to the degree that they are incomplete . |
| 23 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 24 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 25 | Mind you , you see in the long run they proved that she was |
| 26 | In the long afternoon they toured the city Turnwise of the river . |
| 27 | This is the challenge for the brewers and their designers — to survive in the long term they must , in certain instances , address this radically broadened target market . |
| 28 | If we fail to build a healthy , living soil , chemicals will , at best , provide a short-term panacea ; in the long term they will ‘ kill the goose that lays the golden egg ’ . |
| 29 | They have no chance of winning the title this season and in the long term they 'll struggle to win the Premier League because they ca n't compete with Blackburn , Arsenal , Leeds and Manchester United … not only on the playing field but on the financial front . |
| 30 | Resident Simon Halliwell says ‘ This place is a gift for a person with a big ego and a big wallet and in the long term they wo n't be of any use to the island . ’ |