Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drug doses also tend to be higher and given for longer periods . |
| 2 | The sharp bright sunshine , accompanied by cold winds and interspersed with long periods of heavy rain , had at last given way to real spring weather , warm sunshine and feathery showers . |
| 3 | While disgraced former officials during 1989 continued to be convicted and sentenced to long prison terms , particularly in Uzbekistan [ see pp. 36898 ; 37129 ] , in January 1990 , however , three defendants were acquitted on the grounds of " violations of legality " by investigators . |
| 4 | There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary . |
| 5 | ‘ Our favourite times are Sunday afternoons , cooking , watching television and going for long walks . ’ |
| 6 | He remembered one time he 'd walked up here , in May , after she had started seeing him in the afternoons and going for long walks along the canal-side . |
| 7 | Droplets up to 100 m in size can be suspended in the air and travel for long distances , so a few deeply inhaled legionella-laden amoebae could cause infection , especially since legionellae successfully outgrow the host cell at body temperature . |
| 8 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 9 | Saga publishes a booklet , Saving and Spending on Longer Holidays Abroad , which not only details the savings householders of any age can expect to make while they take an extended holiday , but also gives advice to pensioners on how to ensure they get their pension while they winter abroad . |
| 10 | He says that you must start on the triangle and continue in long strokes . |
| 11 | The unions have dropped from their claim the demand for increased annual leave , extra holiday and pay for long service , and reductions in working hours . |
| 12 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 13 | Rose , exhausted with running , slackened her pace a little and took in long gulps of air . |
| 14 | THE fighting in North Africa ceased on May 12 , 1943 , when the German and Italian soldiers , ordered by their commanders to surrender , laid down their arms and marched in long columns , defeated but still proud , into years of captivity . |
| 15 | At Huddersfield he developed into an expert practitioner of the art of inside passing , a tactic Chapman had first encouraged at Northampton and preferred to long centres from the wing . |
| 16 | During the ‘ kihon ’ exercises ( basic training in class ) , the whole club practises punching and blocking in long lines , moving down the hall until space runs out . |
| 17 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 18 | If an aggravation occurs i.e. an intensification of the original symptoms , at the end of treatment , then the doses must be reduced in quantity and repeated at longer intervals , or stopped altogether to see if the symptoms will continue to disappear by themselves . |
| 19 | Every item of clothing you wear , especially your shoes , should have been tried and tested on long runs to ensure there is no danger of an unsuspected seam causing you to chafe . |
| 20 | Plummer swallowed hard and froze for long seconds . |
| 21 | Most conversational uses of Creole by British-born speakers are short , and embedded in longer stretches of British English . |
| 22 | In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons . |
| 23 | MO 9 had plans to raise 10 Commandos , each with 10 50-man Troops , and called for volunteers for unspecified hazardous duties who must also be prepared to work and train for longer hours than regular formations . |