Example sentences of "a long [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
| 2 | It dumps taciturn criminal Bill ( Burke ) and his vacationing student brother Dennis ( Sage ) in a Long Island small-town . |
| 3 | She had a Long Island accent , though she came from Fresno . |
| 4 | A FRAUD of staggering audacity has allegedly been perpetrated against General Motors by a Long Island dealer who , prosecutors claim , borrowed $1¾ billion ( £1 billion ) from the car company last year alone to finance vehicles ‘ that never existed ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A lot can be learned about a place on a long Sunday morning run . |
| 7 | Bradley Allen scored his third goal in four games to give Rangers the lead and tipped strike partner Ferdinand for a long England career . |
| 8 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 9 | This was the theory that it kept a Long Kesh compound filled with loyalists as a propaganda exercise to impress observers outside Ulster that it was acting impartially towards both the British loyalist and the Irish republican community . |
| 10 | A long Ripley pass had forced Liverpool to concede a corner , and from |
| 11 | I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates-late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part . |
| 12 | I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates , late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part . |