Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some of these , certainly in Johannesburg , are located in the city , far from the townships , and involve a long journey . |
| 32 | Apart from ERA 's determination to find and fund a long term solution to the dampness problem and to prove that their living conditions were more suited to the health of the fungus families than human families , they were equally determined to get Public Health on the political agenda and to dispel the myth that smoking , diet and lack of exercise were solely responsible for Glasgow 's award winning heart disease record . |
| 33 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 34 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 35 | Joanna put down her cup and drew a long breath . |
| 36 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 37 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 38 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 39 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 40 | He slid a coin into the slot of the juke-box and let a long , chocolate finger trip over the buttons . |
| 41 | ‘ It took a long time for me to get my Gold Award because some of the tasks were very difficult , ’ says Fiona of the demanding project that included months of community service , braving the elements on an exploratory camping trip and writing a long and detailed historical thesis ! |
| 42 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 43 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 44 | He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly . |
| 45 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 46 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 47 | The menfolk have an aged , craggy appearance , being hunch-backed from their hard labour , and wear a long grey beard . |
| 48 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 49 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 50 | Assuming that its purpose has been determined , once the machine arrives there are several steps that can be taken to maintain its good condition and ensure a long life . |
| 51 | Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook . |
| 52 | But that 's the hard way and takes a long time . |
| 53 | To present them lucidly , and to draw a long line out of such material , is the pianist 's task ; and Postnikova hardly falters . |
| 54 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 55 | They crossed the city and began a long , slow climb up through the Alfama district . |
| 56 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 57 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 58 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 59 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 60 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |