Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] [art] 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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had n't spoken to Matthew in a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ Why not fly to St-Moritz for a long , lazy weekend ? |
| 8 | 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 ] . |