Example sentences of "long [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 2 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 3 | A long experience of working in the health care market puts Wimpey on top of the waiting list when it comes to hospital projects . |
| 4 | This was typical of the suety coverage of the War Before the War , that long period of waiting before the January 15 deadline . |
| 5 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 6 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 7 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |
| 8 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 9 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 10 | They may be a long way from performing in the Greatest Show on Earth , but getting there has certainly got them in a spin . |
| 11 | 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 . |