Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 2 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 4 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 5 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 6 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 7 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 8 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 9 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 10 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 11 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 12 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 13 | He shrugged his shoulders , ‘ At times I like to speak English , but not for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Before , but not for a long time now , ’ Maggie admitted reluctantly and Rose did not want to learn any more . |
| 15 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 16 | It is a combination that I have used in the past but not for a long time , although blue and white stripes in fabrics are a perennial favourite of mine . |
| 17 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |
| 18 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 19 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |