Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 2 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 3 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 4 | If , however , this is not the case , the specialist may put you on a long course of low dose antibiotics . |
| 5 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 6 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 7 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 8 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm angry because — because you think you can add me to a long line of women notched on your belt . |
| 10 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 11 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 12 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
| 13 | He took another step backwards and stared at her for a long moment before saying , ‘ This is the last time I 'll ever look on you willingly . ’ |
| 14 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 15 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 16 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 17 | As for Miguel , he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand . |
| 18 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 19 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 20 | ‘ I use this for sticking pigs , ’ he said , giving me a mysterious smile , gesturing with the ugly blade across his uncovered throat , then laughing , flicking it shut and thrusting it into a long pocket in the side of his dusty black corduroys . |
| 21 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 23 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 24 | It is now generally applied to those who have neglected themselves over a long period of time or when a person has become seriously ill but is refusing hospital admission . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |