Example sentences of "who [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women and girls who worked long hours , often by candlelight , to supplement the meagre incomes their menfolk earned as farm labourers , used wheat straw cut by hand by the local farmers , to prevent the stems being broken by machinery . |
| 2 | It was n't a very happy family , her father , who worked long hours as an engineer , hit her mother and sometimes the children too , but he never hit Noreen . |
| 3 | It was an old house in its own tidy grounds , all parquet and notice boards , three floors of quiet cells inhabited by ungainly girls who wore long skirts and tucked their legs under them when they sat on floor cushions drinking coffee . |
| 4 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |
| 5 | Blocks appeared to be particularly useful for part-time farmers who had long holidays ( teachers , lecturers ) or for family farmers who had no cereal crops and could therefore fit in three or four days in the autumn . |
| 6 | I had a friend who had long hair and she , she let it grow right the way through . |
| 7 | Sub-editors , who work long evenings , currently do a four-day week , he says . |
| 8 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 9 | This does not apply to those people who spend long periods of time in institutions which they are powerless to leave and with little or no freedom of choice … children 's homes , boarding schools , prisons , mental hospitals , homes for people with disabilities . |
| 10 | Two of the issues which stand out most clearly from staff responses to the assessment are ( i ) that we must provide training in the health and safety aspects of workstation use , and ( ii ) that we must provide information to staff on the procedures for eyesight testing for those staff who spend long periods in front of display screens . |