Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
2 ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’
3 It seemed to go on for a long time .
4 To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions .
5 They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too .
6 They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window .
7 A 12 volt battery is really essential for the mechanical action of the trimmer to work effectively over a long period .
8 He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel .
9 Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run .
10 We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point .
11 ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear .
12 The increase had been won only after a long struggle .
13 That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market .
14 The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’
15 In Levene v Pearcey [ 1976 ] Crim LR 63 , a taxi-driver falsely told his passenger that the route was blocked and charged more for the longer way .
16 However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum .
17 Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence .
18 His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates .
19 For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair .
20 Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss .
21 The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy .
22 In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation .
23 Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply .
24 Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome .
25 No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time .
26 That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while .
27 She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing .
28 Scottie loved travelling and behaved splendidly during the long drives and sailing periods .
29 He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun .
30 In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space .
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