Example sentences of "through a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours . |
| 2 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 3 | Scroll through a long document in a DOS word processor , then compare that to wading through a Word for Windows file . |
| 4 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 5 | His commitment to School was matched by his commitment to his wife , whom he nursed through a long illness without ever missing a day at School . |
| 6 | A much-loved brother dying in rather questionable circumstances , then her first husband … and then having to nurse her second husband — my father — through a long illness at a time when she herself was n't well . |
| 7 | Encouraged by his sister Julie , a night-club singer , he became an extra in films and graduated his way through a long succession of walk-ons to become a featured player in B-pictures . |
| 8 | He has , of course , come into recent prominence through a long association with the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 9 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 10 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 11 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 12 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 13 | The Bajamunde farm was about 10 minutes — 15p , with a tip — along the coast by trishaw , an undemanding trip ( even for the driver ) , through a long avenue of palms beside the beach . |
| 14 | The device was inspired by a bus journey taken by Gysin , when the sun flickered through a long avenue of trees . |