Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the match entered its final stages Civil Service thrust forward again using the long ball into the circle . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the people in charge of Oxford Uni 's mail server have been playing around of late , and have changed from using the long form to the short form , and now , it seems , back again . |
| 3 | ‘ Get on ! ’ said Teng , drawing the long club from his belt and jabbing the man viciously in the small of the back . |
| 4 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 5 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 6 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 7 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 8 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 9 | CAMBRIDGE University 's Boat Race trials were derailed yesterday when one of the three crews hit a floating sleeper on the Thames at Putney , tearing a long gash in the hull . |
| 10 | ‘ How about you , Mark … . ’ began the top man , his eyes searching the long table for the Englishman . |
| 11 | ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her . |
| 12 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 13 | The woodland , marching up the hill , vanished before it but reached an arm around to the west , fringing the road , and then ran behind it to the north , forming a long backdrop to the palm house and the terraces . |
| 14 | The basic technique is called run length coding and works by replacing a long run of unchanging data by the shortest possible code . |
| 15 | Following a serious collision at the Pleasure Beach in 1980 , 705 was scrapped , but happily 706 has been restored for the 1985 Centenary , reviving a long tradition of open toppers on the Promenade . |
| 16 | I remember a Rhodesian in our squadron writing a long letter to the ‘ Malta Times ’ about this very subject , but I do n't think it was ever published . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ ) |
| 18 | Nor does the performance seem anything but studio bound , at least until a more involving Act 3 , as compared with any of the sets listed above , two made in the theatre , the other exhibiting the long experience of Furtwängler in the work . |
| 19 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 20 | If the vendor attempts to avoid a balancing charge in respect of an industrial building by granting a long lease at a premium out of the " relevant interest " which he owns , Newco will not be entitled to industrial buildings allowances on the premium ( see s20 Capital Allowances Act 1990 ) . |
| 21 | Progress came instead from testing a long sequence of compounds leading from the most potent sulphonamides to pyrimidines , a family of moderately complex organic compounds some of which are constituents of nucleic acids ( Chapter II ) , and later to guanidines . |
| 22 | Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica . |
| 23 | The 1983 election , although a significant Conservative success , was not a realigning one , nor one necessarily presaging a long spell of Conservative rule . |
| 24 | Leading a long convoy of these , Keith and Ramsay rode to the ford and over , under the Knight Marischal 's great banner , with a mounted escort , trumpets blowing , to draw maximum attention . |
| 25 | Owning a long position in an index future enables the trader to participate in price changes of the shares in the index . |
| 26 | I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 28 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 29 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 30 | A much quoted example is in Latin American cultures , where sales representatives are often kept waiting a long time for a business appointment ; in our culture this would be unorthodox , and at best it would be seen as being very bad mannered . |