Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting .
2 The device was inspired by a bus journey taken by Gysin , when the sun flickered through a long avenue of trees .
3 Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians .
4 While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War .
5 And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home .
6 The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope .
7 Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him .
8 In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer .
9 We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from
10 Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb .
11 His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University .
12 And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest .
13 B H Payne , Headmaster of the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea and one of the founder-members , replied with a long letter in the next issue .
14 The words arrived on a long feather of smoke .
15 They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides .
16 He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side .
17 Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty .
18 She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions .
19 Prehistoric started with a long pan over a series of cave murals : a man , a woman , a fight , a fuck , a tiger — a spaceship .
20 Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter .
21 Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s .
22 I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor .
23 After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park .
24 I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted .
25 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 .
26 Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps .
27 Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps .
28 She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness .
29 On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home .
30 The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so .
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