Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 4 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 5 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 6 | It was all she could do to scramble behind trying to keep up with the long , impatient strides . |