Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 2 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 3 | The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period . |
| 4 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 5 | Derek Warwick , returning to Interlagos after a long absence , found it tough going in his Footwork Mugen Honda and ended up 19th on the provisional grid . |
| 6 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
| 7 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 8 | To birdie with a long par-4 coming up was a great bonus when he might have expected to bogey . |
| 9 | She had n't spoken to Matthew in a long time . |
| 10 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 11 | ‘ Why not fly to St-Moritz for a long , lazy weekend ? |
| 12 | The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] . |
| 13 | He wanted to lie down in front of the fire and go to sleep for a long , long time . |
| 14 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 15 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 16 | Once there , he held on to power for a long time , easily in successive periods of government , with unusual difficulty in opposition . |
| 17 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |
| 18 | Everyone who sets out to attack a pensioner should know that if he is caught , he will go to prison for a long time . |