Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 5 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 6 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 7 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 8 | A 12 volt battery is really essential for the mechanical action of the trimmer to work effectively over a long period . |
| 9 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 10 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 11 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 13 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 14 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 15 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 16 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 17 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 18 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 19 | This looks almost like a long unused guest room with a view . |
| 20 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 21 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 22 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
| 23 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 24 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 25 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 26 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 27 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 28 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 29 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 30 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |