Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 2 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 3 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 4 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 5 | and came out of Long Beach we 'll miss it |
| 6 | Came out of Long Beach Road we 'll miss it . |
| 7 | Using skilled tutors , such as Mary Adams from Cambridge , who shared in the group-listening sessions and then extended the broadcast themes through discussion and supplementary material , the BBC programmes at Harrold and Goldington led directly to longer courses . |
| 8 | Mr Bumble walked on with long steps , with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him . |
| 9 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 10 | Paper hung away in long strips . |
| 11 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 12 | Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong-doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk . |
| 13 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 14 | It took the puritan fanatics to destroy these high spirits and mockery , which led inevitably to long periods of repression with its back-street prostitution of women and young boys , one of the many ‘ hidden ’ elements in Victorian society and , what was equally lamentable , the denial of the rightful place of women in society . |
| 15 | Once they were married adults they settled down for longer periods . |
| 16 | He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house . |
| 17 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 18 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
| 19 | He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies . |
| 20 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 21 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |
| 22 | In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics . |