Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] [prep] long " in BNC.

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1 And make use of long wave .
2 In practice , the sole result was an outbreak of fisticuffs between the UDA and UVF prisoners in Long Kesh prison .
3 Guisarmes ( top ) were used to great effect as thrusting and cutting weapons on long shafts whilst ( above ) the cultellus was used to administer the coup de grace to unhorsed knights , and the war scythe and glaive to pull the horseman from his saddle .
4 Amid worsening violence linked to Islamic fundamentalist groups [ see pp. 39118-19 ] , the government issued a decree on Oct. 1 against " subversion and terrorism " , creating three secret courts , lowering the age of responsibility from 18 to 16 years and introducing sanctions including long prison terms and execution , without right of appeal .
5 In this way examples can be collected in a methodical way and edited with the minimum expenditure of time on viewing and selecting extracts from long recordings .
6 Pete Dawson was his real name but no one called him that At 15 he was six-feet tall , stroke for the rowing eight , and had loads of long hair .
7 If the risk was very great or obvious then , given the number of people using monitors and watching TV for long periods , then the effects would be more obvious .
8 One recent estimate was that the private sector carries out 15% of elective surgery and 59% of abortions and provides 58% of long term care of the elderly and 7% of acute psychiatry .
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