Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | These fish are especially prone to ‘ conditioning ’ ; you can switch their minds onto a certain item of food and if you keep that food trickling through their swims over a long period they will continue feeding , with only short breaks , until that food runs out or some other disaster happens to move them . |
| 2 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 3 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 4 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 5 | A primly sober pas de deux for two men ( Baryshnikov and John Gardner ) , the Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two by Lar Lubovitch , looked uneasy and undeveloped out of its context in a longer suite . |
| 6 | The violinist is airing his complaints in an interview at his apartment in Manhattan 's great culture gulch , the Upper West Side , on the even of his departure for a long concert tour . |
| 7 | He sat behind his desk for a long time , skipping Sunday 's cold-mutton supper , rousing himself to say goodbye to the visitors , trying to deal with the paperwork of Sara 's business . |
| 8 | Gabriel looked into her face for a long time . |
| 9 | Instead of sitting on the benches he came right up to Minch 's cage and stared into its emptiness for a long time . |
| 10 | Their more ample resources also explain why it was least common for such upper-class grandparents to share a house with their grandchildren on a longer basis . |
| 11 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 12 | The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away . |
| 13 | You 've had that pain under your ribs for a long time . |
| 14 | But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway |
| 15 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 16 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This has been in my mind for a long , long time . |
| 18 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 19 | Overnight , as passengers slept soundly in their cabins after a long day ashore , or the more hardy danced and gave in to the temptations of the midnight buffet , the Ocean Empress had weighed anchor and begun to move south again , until , shortly after dawn , the silence of the engines pronounced her arrival in Tenerife off the west coast of Africa . |
| 20 | She stood up and twisted her hair round her head in a long rope , pinning it high . |
| 21 | He held me in his arms for a long time , kissing me gently . |
| 22 | He held her in his arms for a long minute . |
| 23 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 24 | Radioactive elements remain in our bodies for a long time . |
| 25 | Of course , dustproof bags , cases for machines , and strong plastic covers for papers and boxes of computer disks can be a great help , but above all , keep a constant check on all your materials and if you are away from your house for a long time , lock them all up in a metal trunk or barrel and ask a local friend to check your house for termites from time to time . |
| 26 | One day in October 1582 he came to my house with a long face . |
| 27 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 28 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 29 | I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank . |
| 30 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |