Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Tuesday morning , when year ten pupils boarded the coach , ready for the long journey which lay ahead of them . |
| 2 | For the long vacation we told institutions that they could anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 3 | A warm wind shone through the long stubble which shimmered like silk in the heat ; the sun glared off the metal cabs of lorries and buses , the tar melted into mirages of water and cleared again . |
| 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 | Peter Skinner , regional general manager , Asia and East Africa , died peacefully on Wednesday October 14th after a long illness which both he and his family had fought against with great courage . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | After a long while she belched several times , then said , ‘ Maybe I 'll be more resistant now . |
| 10 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 11 | After a long journey we arrived at Lowestoft College . |
| 12 | One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are . |
| 13 | Then after a long pause she added , ‘ Absolutely nice . |
| 14 | After a long flight your perceptions are dulled , and everything is synthetic . |
| 15 | After a long silence I said , ‘ Please ask a maid to show me my bedroom . |
| 16 | After a long argument she convinced the guard we were n't tourists and that climbing was still allowed in the area . |
| 17 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 18 | But after a long moment he shook his head . |
| 19 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 20 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? " |
| 23 | In France and England it was the breakdown of the historic feudal order , no longer able to meet the demands of changing times , and its gradual replacement by an order of nations increasingly aware of their growing national characteristics , which was the fundamental cause of the long conflict which forms the subject of this book . |
| 24 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 27 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 28 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |