Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 2 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 3 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 4 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |
| 5 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 6 | But the connection of transgressive desire with forgetfulness and oblivion is important and follows in a long tradition : religious , mystical , or romantic or some combination of all these . |
| 7 | The land was originally a corn field and runs in a long narrow strip , still bordered by fields . |