Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 2 | Not returning calls , or taking a long time to do so . |
| 3 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 4 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 5 | Keen skiers are motivated to consider the transatlantic option by the notion that paying a bit more for their holiday and enduring a longer journey may cut out the uncertainty about snow conditions that hangs over European skiing . |
| 6 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 7 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 8 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 9 | The front of the building has six recessed Egyptian lotus columns flanking the windows and supporting a long entablature . |
| 10 | On island greens , for example , short of starting the hole with a tee on the island and requiring a long putt for your first stroke , it is simply not possible . |
| 11 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 12 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You might fall asleep again , ’ he said , picking up a mug from the table beside him and taking a long swallow . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 15 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 16 | The divan , lifted high at one end by Ludens , suddenly began to rush down the stairs , nearly overturning Jack and making a long scar upon the wallpaper with one of its feet . |
| 17 | Dawn rose out of St Andrews Bay , touching the rooftop of the Royal and Ancient clubhouse and casting a long shadow towards the 18th green and the Valley of Sin . |
| 18 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 19 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |