Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even bottom-dwelling molluscs can be dispersed widely over long distances , and are quick to colonize vacant sites that appear in the ocean ( new volcanic islands like Surtsey , for example ) . |
| 2 | There , women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches . |
| 3 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 4 | We get caught out with long balls to where our defender has just come from . |
| 5 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 6 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 7 | Indeed , talk to any manager and he or she already has common-sense theories of motivation , often built up over long periods of observing people at work . |
| 8 | This itself is built up from long chains of sugar and phosphate molecules to which are attached nitrogen-containing molecules called the nucleotide bases . |
| 9 | Vincent Hickey , 38 , was moved out of Long Lartin top security jail last weekend after he was found bleeding from razor slash injuries , but is now refusing food at Birmingham 's Winson Green jail . |
| 10 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 11 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 12 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 13 | In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods . |
| 14 | ‘ The higher risk prisoners are locked up for longer . |
| 15 | She could do without large conscript armies to defend land frontiers and needed long-service troops who could be employed overseas for long periods . |
| 16 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 17 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |
| 18 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 19 | Their skin was stretched out between long spines , which seems to have acted as a cooling radiator . |
| 20 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , much traditional language teaching , in its zeal for practising verb tenses and using new vocabulary , has concentrated exclusively on longer forms ( Answer with a full sentence please . ! ) |
| 22 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 23 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 24 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 25 | But a third group , induced to feel purringly happy , remained blocked up for longer than patients who had no treatment at all . |
| 26 | Harry nodded and allowed himself to be led up into Long Acre . |
| 27 | KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions . |
| 28 | Meals , for example , are eaten communally at long tables and comprise simple but excellent fare , created almost entirely from estate produce . |
| 29 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 30 | If you are knocked out for longer than a few seconds , you should report to your doctor as soon as possible after the competition . |