Example sentences of "[verb] long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raised in London , he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital . |
| 2 | Five men maybe and that time … ’ she counted on her fingers , naming long remembered names , ‘ Three women . |
| 3 | They went more and more slowly , and made long halts in the peat-cuts . |
| 4 | There is one pointed , slightly angular , apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 to 4 irregularly arranged long pointed oral papillae , some of which are slightly flattened . |
| 5 | Famous ministers like Horne , Clifford , Watson , Horton , Charles Berry of Wolverhampton 's Queen Street Congregational Church and Forsyth often visited America to conduct long preaching and lecturing tours . |
| 6 | Our did n't stay long did he ? |
| 7 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 8 | The message queuing subsystem , /Q , allows Tuxedo to perform long running , time-delayed and event-driven transactions by writing messages to disk . |
| 9 | CAREFREE : But most girls are aware of the dangers of casual sex and want long lasting relationships |
| 10 | One of the worries about the limit on inpatient waiting times was that instead of tackling long waiting it would merely shift delays and patients would end up waiting longer for outpatient consultations . |
| 11 | If you intend tackling long trips in remote places , searching for a special fuel or type of gas cartridge can be a fruitless exercise . |
| 12 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 13 | It might well be argued that the USM , now containing some 900 companies with a market capitalisation of less than £50m , has long outlived it usefulness . |
| 14 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 15 | Off the pitch , Palmer has long made his mark . |
| 16 | While it might seem very odd that a museum which is home to such Rembrandt masterpieces as the ‘ Jewish bride ’ , the ‘ Academy lesson of Dr Deyman ’ , the ‘ Night watch ’ and the ‘ Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul ’ , would allocate the funds for a much less impressive work , the Rijksmuseum has long made Rembrandt purchases a priority . |
| 17 | The other half can most conveniently be received in lire ( cash please ) by William Fosdyke , an Englishman who has long made his home in Mondano and who has certain bills to discharge in relation to the property . |
| 18 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 19 | Has long does that go for ? |
| 20 | Mr Savoy , who is based at the Andean Explorers and Ocean Sailing Club in Reno , Nevada , has long suspected that ancient man had far more trans-oceanic contacts than most orthodox historians accept . |
| 21 | ‘ Science has finally confirmed what many a mere male has long suspected — that the troubles of the world are women 's fault , and if there were fewer of them , things would get on a whole lot better . |
| 22 | Something akin to the contemporary pattern of hooliganism has long existed in Glasgow as a result of Irish Catholic immigration and militant working-class Scottish Protestantism . |
| 23 | Though it has long existed , it has spread wider as the Japanese economy has matured and become more open to competition , especially from overseas . |
| 24 | MICHAEL Heseltine was rewarded yesterday for four weeks of dynamic and effective campaigning by being appointed Trade and Industry Secretary , the Cabinet job he has long coveted . |
| 25 | Its president , Karl Otto Pöhl , has long believed that his first and only duty is to keep inflation low in Germany . |
| 26 | Yachting World has long believed sailing to be one of the principal sports in which women can compete directly with men , particularly as , in sailing , brain and not just brawn is of the essence . |
| 27 | The Conservative government has long believed that ( excessive ) ‘ public expenditure is at the heart of Britain 's economic difficulties ’ ( HMSO 1979 ) . |
| 28 | able to establish good rapport with pupils ; 2. has charisma ; 3. is good at organizing ; 4. is a survivor ; 5. keeps in touch with what 's happening in other subjects and in pupils ' backgrounds ; 6. has a quality of openness ; 7. has long teaching experience ; 8. has good qualifications in the subject ; 9. has strong religious faith ; 10. has enthusiasm for the subject ; 11. has a sense of humour . |
| 29 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 30 | Nationalism , too , has long hampered progress . |