Example sentences of "back [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 2 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 3 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
| 4 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 5 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 6 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 7 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 8 | He kept the shoulders stiff and he rolled a little , like a sailor back from a long voyage . |
| 9 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |