Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off . |
| 2 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 3 | Sustaining men through a long sentence is much more than providing work or classes , important though they are . |
| 4 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 5 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 6 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 7 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 8 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 9 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |