Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 2 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 3 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 4 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 5 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 6 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 7 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 8 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 9 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 10 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 11 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 14 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 15 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 16 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 17 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 18 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
| 21 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 22 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 23 | ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’ |
| 24 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 25 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 28 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 29 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 30 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |