Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe , buy or make a long cake such as a swiss roll and cut about four inches off the end . |
| 2 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 3 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 5 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 6 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 7 | Those that need a long day-length to complete their life-cycle often refuse to bloom in the shade . |
| 8 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 9 | Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow , and make a long face , or only metaphorically ? |
| 10 | He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole |
| 11 | Some of these , certainly in Johannesburg , are located in the city , far from the townships , and involve a long journey . |
| 12 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 13 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 14 | He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly . |
| 15 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 16 | Assuming that its purpose has been determined , once the machine arrives there are several steps that can be taken to maintain its good condition and ensure a long life . |
| 17 | We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge … |
| 18 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |
| 19 | Very dirty items , if they are cleaned immediately and take a long time , can upset the flow and cause a log-jam of dirties with congestion in the reception area which restricts work further . |
| 20 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 21 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 22 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |