Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 2 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 3 | Although we were trying a man for being ‘ drunk in charge ’ two people in the jury room ( after a long exposition from the recorder ) were quite determined to find him not guilty of ‘ dangerous driving ’ — an offence with which he had never been charged . |
| 4 | After a long battle with the local council , she was finally taken to court and fined £800 . |
| 5 | After a long deliberation by the jury , Mr Dodd was cleared of wilfully avoiding tax on the considerable sums of money he had hidden , but had to pay large amounts of tax considered owing , as well as legal costs . |
| 6 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 7 | After a long slog in the 1980s to reach the top flight of the Championship , last season 's relegation was nothing short of disastrous for the club and Stedman feels that it is an indictment of Farnham that promising young players in the area , whom the town club would hope to recruit , are instead going to Guildford , attracted by division one status . |
| 8 | Similarly , I was once asked by an Anglican leader after a long description of the birth , struggle and then growth and conversions in our new community church , ‘ Yes but , when you celebrate the Eucharist : what do you wear ? ’ |
| 9 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 10 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 11 | After a long day at the office Richard likes nothing more than to drive home to his little pad in Huntley for a quiet night in with 21 year old , Sarah . |
| 12 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 13 | Susanna Lewis 's very popular book A Machine Knitter 's Guide to Creating Fabrics is available again after a long absence from the bookshelves . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt good when I returned in March after a long absence from the game with a knee injury . |
| 16 | JE : Though this role was written for you , in a sense , did you find it difficult having to sing Britten after a long career in the standard repertoire ? |
| 17 | After a long search through the booklet I discovered that Floridante was put together form ‘ live ’ performances at the Göttingen Handel Festival in much the same way as many of John Eliot Gardiner 's marvellous Handel oratorio recordings for Philips . |
| 18 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 20 | After a long interrogation from the prosecution , Day was asked to sit down . |
| 21 | After a long game in the kitchen which ended in a draw , they went upstairs and made love . |
| 22 | ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on . |
| 23 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 24 | And then playing a a hook , bowling a hook with a sort of a long hook to An iron hoop or hook it would about two foot six in circumference . |
| 25 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |
| 26 | At least she had the satisfaction of a long marriage to a devoted husband . |
| 27 | Unlike sales for a manufacturing company , the sale of a life assurance product is only the start of a long relationship between the policyholder and the company . |
| 28 | The incorporation of a long passage from a Board of Education memo on evening schools indicates that the Committee feels itself to be in consonance with the Board " s thinking , not only on the inadequacies of vocational education , but also on the value of English as a force for cultural nationalization . |
| 29 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 30 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |