Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |
| 2 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 3 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 4 | Her neck rose in a long , rounded column to a face which , though not classically beautiful — the nose was too tilted , the mouth too wide — was heart-stopping in its freshness , its air of innocence combined with its look of deep , untapped feminine knowledge . |
| 5 | A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss . |
| 6 | She unfastened her own belt , and as her arms wound about his neck their lips met in a long kiss . |
| 7 | Their eyes met in a long , arching stare . |
| 8 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 9 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 10 | The sea still echoed the storm , foot-high waves breaking with a long hush against the shingle , but the sky was blue and clear . |
| 11 | Painted red , of course , with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches , a recessed bonnet , a short roof tapering into a long , descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear . |
| 12 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 13 | The correct word-path is excluded from many mid and mixed utterances because an alternative parsing into a long word is preferred . |
| 14 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 15 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 16 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 17 | The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear . |
| 18 | And it is hard not to think of one 's own horror at some of the things that the Irgun and Stern Gang are doing in Palestine , for instance , ’ David said after a long silence . |
| 19 | Euparkeria , with more pronounced legs balanced by a long tail , was probably a more direct forerunner of dinosaurs than Ornithosuchus , but it was smaller and more agile . |
| 20 | Such factors may include , for instance , a previous experience of loss which was dealt with badly , unresolved grief , past experience of failure , a lack of a sense of self-efficacy , a low self-esteem , a previous history of psychiatric disorder , and an absence of close relationships established over a long period of time . |
| 21 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 22 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 23 | His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage . |
| 24 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 25 | A hedge position is a portfolio consisting of a long or short share and one or more of the available options on that share . |
| 26 | The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off . |
| 27 | It is not a very fruitful exercise to indulge in a long debate as to which of these two functions is the more important . |
| 28 | The rush over , Maggie drew in a long breath , and turning to the supervisor who was hovering in the background , she asked , ‘ All right if we go ? ’ |
| 29 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 30 | It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range . |