Example sentences of "[verb] on a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 2 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 3 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 4 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 5 | He looked at her and said , adopting roguishness , ‘ Would you like to come on a long journey with me ? |
| 6 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 7 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 8 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 9 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 10 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 11 | I 'm sure your husband appreciated from afar the care and ‘ antics ’ of you and your friends , the personal and loving touch that one would give to any loved one going on a long journey . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 13 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 14 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 15 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 16 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 17 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 18 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 19 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 20 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 21 | The film is based on a long novel by Pat Conroy which deals with the excavation of the past , a current favourite theme . |
| 22 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 23 | He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side . |
| 24 | He was getting nearer to himself , travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 'm so glad to be home , ’ Faye confessed on a long sigh . |
| 26 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 29 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 30 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |