Example sentences of "them [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
2 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
3 | In the afternoons , my servant , Tabby , took them for long walks on the moors behind the house . |
4 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
5 | You can get them with long pins each si have them standing up the board and then you have another board , a board with a so you can |
6 | You can make up round tables from cheap wood and cover them with long cloths and changeable overcloths . |
7 | It was tacitly agreed between them from long experience . |
8 | There were five boats moored to the shored-up bank , all with names beginning Duke , hung with bright blue fenders that had n't saved them from long scratches and stains . |
9 | 8 Get some air-bricks and put them in long grass or under bushes . |
10 | ‘ A lover of nature , he was no lover of solitude , and like many whose occupations condemn them to long silences he seized eagerly on all opportunities of conversation . ’ |
11 | In the decade after 1833 it became apparent that the district courts , which had original jurisdiction in all civil cases and most criminal ones , were unable to handle the litigation brought before them without long delays . |