Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , nuffink 's gon na 'appen fer a long while yet so the owners are lettin' the place out fer rent . |
| 2 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 4 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 5 | It was confiscated again in 1302 , but eventually , after a long struggle , he succeeded in maintaining his palatine rights . |
| 6 | It represents , however , a retreat from the basic principle that the price of limited liability should be full financial disclosure — a principle which after a long struggle , was adopted in the 1967 Act . |
| 7 | After a long struggle , Mexico finally refused to pay : it was 1982 and the country had an 80-billion-dollar debt . |
| 8 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 9 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 10 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 11 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 12 | When I woke up , I was on a train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long sleep . |
| 13 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 14 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 15 | After a long childhood it has become the most successful laboratory of its sort in the world . |
| 16 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 17 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 18 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 19 | After a long breakfast , we went into the Town to buy last minute chocolates for our families before visiting the Ferris wheel for a champagne meal overlooking the entire city . |
| 20 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly quit the game after a long illness , unexpectedly won back the British national title at Newcastle yesterday when she beat Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting less than 45 minutes . |
| 21 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 22 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 23 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 24 | ‘ When my father died , after a long illness , I was devastated . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Peter and Paul , Yeadon died in Leeds Infirmary after a long illness on October 24th . |
| 27 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 28 | On 2 October of the same year William Jowett Titford , great-grandson of William the Emigrant , wrote to his mother in London : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th after a long illness ’ . |
| 29 | William Jowett Titford 's copy of a letter to his mother of 2 October 1802 , mentioning the death of Charles the Cheesemonger : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th. after a long illness ’ . |
| 30 | CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 . |