Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 2 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 3 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 4 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 10 | A song that we hear as a long light squeal . |
| 11 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 12 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 13 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 14 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 15 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 16 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 17 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 18 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 19 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 20 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 21 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 22 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 23 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 24 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 25 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 26 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 27 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 28 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 29 | A rest , a quick conflab and we decide to do another twenty miles and reach our tent before we stop for a long rest . |
| 30 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |