Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | So straightaway there there is absolutely no reason at all for me to have a long barrelled weapon |
| 2 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 3 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 4 | On the Sunday morning after the opening , Dustin spread out The New York Times on the sidewalk , and saw a half-page picture of himself illustrating a long article by Walter Kerr , the most esteemed American critic of the day , then only doing weekend pieces . |
| 5 | A short continuous crisis , the origins and consequences of which cover a long period , seems to be the double requirement of tragedy and its double relationship to time . |
| 6 | To illustrate , let us consider the case of a word overlapping with two other candidates , the first of which has a long definition and the second has a short definition . |
| 7 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
| 8 | Feminist thinking does not , of course , exist in a vacuum , and in thinking about women 's autonomy , feminists have drawn on different ( and conflicting ) approaches to questions about the human self , some of which have a long history . |
| 9 | I know it is hard for those of you travelling a long way , but it is very disconcerting for the poor teacher to have a steady trickle of latecomers all through the lesson — particularly when most of the latecomers are not the people who have travelled furthest ! |
| 10 | In front of him stretched a long queue of women each clutching a copy of As the Crow Flies . |
| 11 | The rest of us quit a long time ago . |
| 12 | All of us felt a long way from the happy days when ‘ we never had it so good ’ . |
| 13 | Hee-Haw carried me through the trees and the three of us travelled a long way . |
| 14 | At least one of them will have the whippier shaft which , I suspect , might in itself go a long way to doing the trick . ’ |
| 15 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 16 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |
| 17 | It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour . |
| 18 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 19 | Pushing all the forceps to one side he almost ran from the room and reappeared shortly with a tray on which reposed a long chisel and a metal mallet . |
| 20 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 21 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 22 | Ruth waited for what seemed a long time . |
| 23 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
| 24 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |