Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	For the long vacation we told institutions that they could anticipate up to 10 per cent .
2	She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes .
3	‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’
4	‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’
5	After the long drive they were understandably tired , yet for some reason Stirling failed to post sentries .
6	After a long childhood it has become the most successful laboratory of its sort in the world .
7	Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?
8	After a long while she belched several times , then said , ‘ Maybe I 'll be more resistant now .
9	After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 .
10	After a long journey we arrived at Lowestoft College .
11	Then after a long pause she added , ‘ Absolutely nice .
12	After a long silence I said , ‘ Please ask a maid to show me my bedroom .
13	After a long argument she convinced the guard we were n't tourists and that climbing was still allowed in the area .
14	After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea .
15	But after a long moment he shook his head .
16	After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight .
17	Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
18	After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair .
19	After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? "
20	A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty .
21	Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way .
22	Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ?
23	Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing .
24	That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom .
25	In the course of a long career he became the leading locally based figure in the architecture of the town during the later seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , being involved in many of the collegiate building projects of the period .
26	Throughout the long evenings she worked in the garden and planned what bulbs she would plant for spring flowers .
27	Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story .
28	For a long minute they seemed as one , then , abruptly , the spell was broken .
29	For a long minute she said nothing .
30	Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado .

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