Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawes of Nelson can make the long trip from Surrey worthwhile by plundering the Finishing Post Sprint Handicap at Hamilton . |
| 2 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 3 | A man wid wait a long while fur a Glesca Keelie at a ceilidh and no mistake . |
| 4 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |
| 5 | For sports the children would run around a local playing field , which was just down the road , they walked there under supervision of , or the children would do the long jump in the sand pit . |
| 6 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |
| 7 | From where he stood , he could see the long procession outside the walls , motionless now , and the wagons unshackled behind it . |
| 8 | Between 1630 and 1646 Sir George Horsey had attempted to dam and drain the long tongue of water which still lies between Chesil Beach and the Dorset mainland . |
| 9 | If the wind drops below 50mph , they will begin the long haul to the 29,000ft summit . |
| 10 | Time and time again we would begin the long task of explaining who John was and what on earth we were doing . |
| 11 | And erm you could see a long distance with it like that you know , especially if you could see a fox from er about a mile and a half , you could see right going along the rocks in the mountains . |
| 12 | ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon . |
| 13 | Would you like a long weekend in the country courtesy of Citroën ? |
| 14 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 15 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 16 | Do n't devise a long list of rules for the sake of having rules : make sure they serve a purpose — to enhance your child 's safety– wellbeing and steady ( not hurried ) progress towards maturity . |
| 17 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 18 | However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break . |
| 19 | The program memory will contain a long list of words that will tax the resources of most children . |
| 20 | But Whitehill town councillor John Bennett is pointing out that , even when this happens , local people will still face a long drive to the nearest casualty unit . |
| 21 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
| 22 | So perhaps Fashanu and Earle will soon join the long list of those who have gone . |
| 23 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
| 24 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 25 | The Eradicator may well be the solution ; tests conducted by Ray have certainly proved encouraging , and it would take a long string of coincidences to attain the results he has achieved by any other means . |
| 26 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 27 | It 'll take a long time at his age but it 'll mend . |
| 28 | It seemed that it must take a long time for such peace to be broken . |
| 29 | Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem . |
| 30 | There are frictions in the markets for capital , labour , and products , and it may take a long time for changes in the pattern of demand to work their way through the system . |