Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 2 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 3 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 4 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 5 | The air was permeated with Moorlake 's own particular smell , a blend of wood-smoke , of beeswax , of damp , of her aunt 's home-made potpourri in the big bowl on the table , of age , a characteristic scent of which Sara was always aware when she entered the house after a long absence but pane and , idly , Sara tried to open the window . |
| 6 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 7 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 8 | One of the most important points was that , after a long process when every possible avenue had been carefully and scrupulously explored , when Mr. Mendes was returned to Sri Lanka he suffered no persecution whatsoever . |
| 9 | If you , yes , certainly , you can use bits , you bits of a long conversation if necessary . |
| 10 | A comfortable sleeping bag provides the means to re-charge your batteries at the end of a long day so it 's important to ensure you have the right one for the job . |
| 11 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
| 12 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |
| 13 | Riskless and pure discount debentures , shares , calls and puts may now be combined as follows : The right-hand side of the above equation , the combination of a long share and a purchased put , is a manufactured purchased call . |
| 14 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 15 | I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where someone was kicking my legs . |
| 16 | The cost of a long weekend or midweek mini-break in a two-bedroomed , self-catering villa at Elveden Forest begins at £159 and £138 respectively . |
| 17 | It looks therefore as if Russia will have to join the back of a long queue before its turn comes again . |
| 18 | Within another two miles we can pick out the inverted ‘ L ’ pattern of one end of a long forest where it touches a B road , adjacent to which point two minor roads feed in at T-junctions ( K , picture taken from south of track — with apologies for the slightly confusing cloud shadow . ) |
| 19 | It took a hell of a long time but learn we did . |
| 20 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 21 | Paddy Ashdown , it appeared , was only the most recent of a long line that stretched back way beyond Sarah Keays and Cecil Parkinson . |
| 22 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 23 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 24 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 25 | Aunt Margaret tucked up Victoria and hung over the cot for a long minute as though she would have liked to sing her a lullaby . |
| 26 | James , a £1.3million signing from Watford , looked set for a long run but his mistakes have persuaded Souness to take him out of the spotlight . |
| 27 | I sighed and lingered over coffee because I know I 'd be in for a long session while I listened to June 's catalogue of woes . |
| 28 | Then Richards chose to bowl himself and Simmons ( who had begun with two quick wickets ) for a long spell and England were let off the hook , Pringle and Downton putting on 66 in thirteen overs . |
| 29 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 30 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |