Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed .
2 Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing .
3 She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away .
4 First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour .
5 First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance .
6 The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain .
7 The kind of music she had not heard for a long time .
8 These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate .
9 Lions are strong but can not run for a long time .
10 ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible .
11 A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it .
12 Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again .
13 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
14 One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time .
15 She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
16 These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle .
17 ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on .
18 Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time .
19 Susie did not reply for a long time .
20 Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period .
21 it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things .
22 It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking .
23 Meanwhile the army , despite the FMLN 's truce offer of Sept. 14 , was still engaged in a long push against guerrilla strongholds , and a major FMLN counter-offensive was not ruled out .
24 Alternatively , try to find the sort of rectangular table that can also double as a long desk or work table when required .
25 While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War .
26 Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 .
27 Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair .
28 Probably inspired by a long term association with UFO 's Phil Mogg , the subsequent ‘ Back On The Streets Again ’ album was a turgid affair .
29 We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea .
30 We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it .
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