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 . |