Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 2 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 3 | I know we 're all very upset by what 's happened here , but damaging your career now wo n't help you in the long run . ’ |
| 4 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 5 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 6 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 7 | ‘ If they continually try to buck the system , the system will destroy them in the long run . |
| 8 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 9 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 10 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 11 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 12 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 13 | For she was old when Tabitha Jute first set eyes upon her , when she dragged the tarpaulins from her in the long grass of that neglected vineyard . |
| 14 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 15 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 16 | It may be expensive , but is worth it in the long run . |
| 17 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 18 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |
| 19 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 20 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 21 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 22 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 23 | And people have heard it which I think helps us in the long run . |