Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] a long " 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 | they might keep you in for a longer rest |
| 5 | I have known you well over a long period of time . |
| 6 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 8 | He looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment before nodding . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 14 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 15 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 18 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 19 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 20 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 21 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |