Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 2 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 3 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 4 | I have known you well over a long period of time . |
| 5 | He looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment before nodding . |
| 6 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 7 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 10 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 11 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 12 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 13 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |