Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 2 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 3 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 4 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 5 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 6 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 7 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 8 | He looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment before nodding . |
| 9 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 10 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 11 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 12 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 13 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 16 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | Well , especially in a long road like this . |
| 18 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 19 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 20 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 21 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 22 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 23 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 24 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 25 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 26 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 27 | Er what sort of relationship did you have with with the men , did you er particularly thinking that you you were still for a long time after that , the the branch secretary of the union as well you know . |
| 28 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 29 | Hayman thought deeply for a long while before making up his mind . |
| 30 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |