Example sentences of "they [verb] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 2 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 3 | They got long poles on the back step . |
| 4 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 5 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 6 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 7 | They had long saloons with six side windows with two opening lights above each . |
| 8 | They spend long hours in the weeks before the Sale crouching at a table at a dangerous angle of 45°s ; in an airless subterranean cupboard off The Undercroft , arranging the unwanted gifts . |
| 9 | In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’ |
| 10 | By plotting the findspots of the axes on a map , it is clear that many of them travelled long distances from where they were made , sometimes being found in areas where a different type of stone was also being quarried for axe manufacture . |
| 11 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |