Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 I asked after a long pause .
2 Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like .
3 er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need .
4 This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay .
5 ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago .
6 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
7 He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned .
8 Can I have for a long time .
9 I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’
10 Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’
11 No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm .
12 ‘ Would it be enough if you had someone to hold during the long , cold nights ? ’
13 I looked across the long row of pens .
14 That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation .
15 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
16 After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park .
17 I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted .
18 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
19 I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
20 I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in .
21 On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism .
22 As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’
23 But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end .
24 It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people .
25 I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave .
26 no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options
27 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
28 I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind .
29 His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time .
30 My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them .
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