Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long while of silence he unlocked his arms from her . |
| 2 | After a long session of testing , Alex became increasingly crotchety and unco-operative and , in one marvellous sequence captured on video-tape , after a tiring day at the office the parrot says : ‘ I 'm going to go away ’ . |
| 3 | Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Grant Thornton 's senior tax partner Philip Hardman on 4 January at the age of 56 , after a long fight against cancer . |
| 4 | Marion McManus , the wife of television actor , Mark McManus , died today in Glasgow after a long fight against cancer . |
| 5 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 6 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 7 | Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed . |
| 8 | After a long pause for refreshment , we can return to the question we started with — how to tell a first edition . |
| 9 | But when he returned to the ministry in 1913 , after a long spell of service in Rome , a great deal had changed . |
| 10 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 11 | His reappearance after a long night of uncertainty prompted scenes of rejoicing among Palestinians around the Middle East . |
| 12 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 13 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 14 | Mike Ford returns to the team after a long break through injury . |
| 15 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 16 | Even the greatest of God 's servants , after a long lifetime of trust and obedience , can fall . |
| 17 | Young people , the unemployed and women returning to work after a long period at home will have to show extra ingenuity to extract evidence of their work skills and potential from their life history . |
| 18 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 19 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 20 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 21 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 22 | Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive . |
| 23 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 24 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 25 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 26 | 1976 ) , is being revived after a long period of disrepute . |
| 27 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 28 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 29 | People vary in their ability to revert to being outgoing , social creatures after a long time of semi-confinement to the house . |
| 30 | The secret of a long day of battle was fitting the components together : the state of caution ; the state of preparedness ; the state of uncaring action ; the state of elation ; the state of waiting ; so that each stage matched the others in sureness and strength , with every thread of body and mind strung to its finest pitch ready to sing to the touch , from one night 's sleep until the next , or until death itself . |