Example sentences of "[v-ing] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The basic technique is called run length coding and works by replacing a long run of unchanging data by the shortest possible code .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ )
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica .
15 The 1983 election , although a significant Conservative success , was not a realigning one , nor one necessarily presaging a long spell of Conservative rule .
16 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 .
17 Owning a long position in an index future enables the trader to participate in price changes of the shares in the index .
18 I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’
19 ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's .
20 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 .
21 She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’
22 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 .
23 He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water .
24 This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands .
25 ‘ She 's a neat little boat , ’ she commented coolly , accepting a long glass of orange juice and fizzy mineral water .
26 Transfer the stitches from needles 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 to the back bed and , using a long length of yarn , cast off the four back stitches .
27 In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money .
28 From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline .
29 Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth .
30 But with makeshift striker Paul Warhurst facing a long lay-off after his horror injury , Francis must again decide between himself , Nigel Jemson and Gordon Watson for the other place .
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