Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 8 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 9 | The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy . |
| 10 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 11 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 12 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 15 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 16 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 17 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 18 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 19 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 20 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 21 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 22 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 23 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 24 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 26 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 27 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 28 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 29 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 30 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |