Example sentences of "away [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 2 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 3 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 6 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 7 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 8 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 10 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 11 | No , well that 's it int it ? so er if things are reasonable we might just go away for a long weekend or something , go find us a place in Southport for a weekend |
| 12 | In the second-half the Dragons had a strong wind at their backs and almost made good use of it straight away as a long ball found McClean and his shot was pushed round by Westwood . |
| 13 | The watching Masai begin to walk away after a long , contemplative moment . |
| 14 | Like rearlights away up the long road |
| 15 | Further to the north , along the ice-bound coast of Marie Byrd Land are more volcanoes , and a well-defined belt soon becomes established , swinging away into the long , crooked arm of the Graham Land peninsula , and then eastwards into a scatter of desolate , little-known volcanic islands , the South Sandwich Islands . |
| 16 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 17 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |
| 18 | James Menzies and the McLaggans , riding on horses , led the rest away on the long climb of the hill to Dunskiag , a gaunt treeless place where the owner lived without a woman and three great staghounds with long coarse hair slavered to get at them , wrenching their chains . |
| 19 | Up three floors in the elevator , and away down the long corridor that was chaos because the electricians were rewiring the floor , and on to the security gate into Bureau territory . |