Example sentences of "and [vb base] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow , and make a long face , or only metaphorically ?
2 He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole
3 Some of these , certainly in Johannesburg , are located in the city , far from the townships , and involve a long journey .
4 Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly .
5 Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ?
6 He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly .
7 internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport .
8 Assuming that its purpose has been determined , once the machine arrives there are several steps that can be taken to maintain its good condition and ensure a long life .
9 We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge …
10 Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer .
11 Very dirty items , if they are cleaned immediately and take a long time , can upset the flow and cause a log-jam of dirties with congestion in the reception area which restricts work further .
12 At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down .
13 I 'm fifty and have a long way to go .
14 All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing .
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