Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |
| 32 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 33 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 34 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 35 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 36 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 37 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 38 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 39 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 40 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 41 | Students often hesitate to let a rhythmic design run on for a long period , fearing monotony ; they therefore begin something different every few bars , sometimes in the belief that changing words need a constantly changing accompaniment . |
| 42 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 43 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 44 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 45 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 46 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 47 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |
| 48 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 49 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
| 50 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |
| 51 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 52 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 53 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 54 | ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’ |
| 55 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 56 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 57 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 58 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 59 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 60 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |