Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 2 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 3 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
| 4 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 6 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
| 7 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 8 | You have been with her a long time . ’ |
| 9 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 10 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 11 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 12 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 13 | If F L is the price of the index future in which a long position is taken , while F s is the price of the index future in which a short position is adopted , the intercommodity spread basis is F L - F s = ( S L - D L ) ( 1 + r L ) - ( S s - D s ) ( 1 + r S ) . |
| 14 | In this case , the spread ratio equals the price of the future in which a long position is taken ( F l ) , divided by the price of the future in which a short position is taken ( F s ) , that is , p = F l /F s . |
| 15 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 16 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 17 | Has known about her a long time . |
| 18 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 19 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 20 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 21 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 22 | She stared at him a long while , then shrugged . |
| 23 | I looked at him a long time , and the smile went away . |
| 24 | I stared at it a long time . |