Example sentences of "them [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 2 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 3 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 4 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 5 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 7 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 8 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 9 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 12 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |
| 13 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 14 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 16 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 17 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 18 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 19 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 20 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 21 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 22 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 23 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 24 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 25 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 26 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 27 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 28 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 29 | ‘ If they continually try to buck the system , the system will destroy them in the long run . |
| 30 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |