Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come .
2 A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss .
3 She unfastened her own belt , and as her arms wound about his neck their lips met in a long kiss .
4 Their eyes met in a long , arching stare .
5 In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) .
6 She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side .
7 The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear .
8 Euparkeria , with more pronounced legs balanced by a long tail , was probably a more direct forerunner of dinosaurs than Ornithosuchus , but it was smaller and more agile .
9 Such factors may include , for instance , a previous experience of loss which was dealt with badly , unresolved grief , past experience of failure , a lack of a sense of self-efficacy , a low self-esteem , a previous history of psychiatric disorder , and an absence of close relationships established over a long period of time .
10 Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious .
11 His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage .
12 Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change .
13 The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off .
14 It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range .
15 In the light from the lamp the child blinked his weary eyes , his question muffled by a long noisy yawn .
16 Best editor seen for a long time .
17 Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial .
18 Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long , narrow green .
19 A window opened with a long pole .
20 From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared .
21 Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away .
22 Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything !
23 The half ended with a long lob from the LOI midfield and on to it runs Dave Tilson with a beautiful header which left Beeney stranded .
24 The displays are shown in Victorian cases housed in a long , narrow gallery running parallel to the windows onto Chambers Street .
25 In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green .
26 Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows .
27 The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary .
28 Sunday winter evenings by the dining-room fire were very special — crumpets toasted on a long toasting fork by the fire ; watching the changing colours of the flames , and the sparks which shot into the chimney .
29 The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue .
30 Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation .
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