Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long childhood it has become the most successful laboratory of its sort in the world . |
| 2 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 3 | After a long while she belched several times , then said , ‘ Maybe I 'll be more resistant now . |
| 4 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 5 | After a long journey we arrived at Lowestoft College . |
| 6 | Then after a long pause she added , ‘ Absolutely nice . |
| 7 | After a long silence I said , ‘ Please ask a maid to show me my bedroom . |
| 8 | After a long argument she convinced the guard we were n't tourists and that climbing was still allowed in the area . |
| 9 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 10 | But after a long moment he shook his head . |
| 11 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 12 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 13 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 14 | After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? " |
| 15 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 16 | In the course of a long career he became the leading locally based figure in the architecture of the town during the later seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , being involved in many of the collegiate building projects of the period . |
| 17 | For a long minute they seemed as one , then , abruptly , the spell was broken . |
| 18 | For a long minute she said nothing . |
| 19 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 20 | For a long while she stayed there without moving , her mind filled with the dull ache of loss and of longing for what might have been . |
| 21 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 22 | For a long while he said nothing . |
| 23 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 24 | ‘ For a long while I did n't go out that much . |
| 25 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 26 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 27 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 28 | For a long period he seems to have been disturbed or disgusted by female sexuality , particularly as it was embodied in his wife , and to have established relationships with women in which the dominant note was one of camaraderie not unmixed with his desire for comfort or protection . |
| 29 | For a long time they just held each other there under the stars . |
| 30 | For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle . |