Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 62 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 63 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 64 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 65 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 66 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 67 | Basilican churches continued to be built for a long time but many variations of form developed , with one dominant theme : a dome , or domes over an open space below . |
| 68 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 69 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 70 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 71 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 72 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 73 | As your child puts together the 50 chunky pieces , each new bit of the picture will encourage him to talk to you about what he sees — be prepared for a long conversation ! |
| 74 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |
| 75 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 76 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 77 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 78 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 79 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 80 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 81 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 82 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 83 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 84 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 85 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 86 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 87 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 88 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 89 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 90 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |