Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 3 | The device was inspired by a bus journey taken by Gysin , when the sun flickered through a long avenue of trees . |
| 4 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 7 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 8 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 9 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 10 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 11 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 12 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 13 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 14 | B H Payne , Headmaster of the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea and one of the founder-members , replied with a long letter in the next issue . |
| 15 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 16 | They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides . |
| 17 | He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side . |
| 18 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 19 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 20 | Prehistoric started with a long pan over a series of cave murals : a man , a woman , a fight , a fuck , a tiger — a spaceship . |
| 21 | Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter . |
| 22 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 23 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 24 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 25 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 26 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 27 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 28 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 29 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 30 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |