Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's going to be a long struggle getting established and until I am I do n't see how … ’ |
| 2 | There 's a long journey coming up . |
| 3 | The chimney of the so-called New Mill , built in 1850 and no longer in use , is the most prominent sign of the local industry , with a long flue rising up the hillside from the smelting furnaces some distance away . |
| 4 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 5 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 7 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 8 | Level with a long board resting on the strips |
| 9 | For many its the end of a long night celebrating at May Balls . |
| 10 | None of this , however , could obscure the triumph of the Prince 's baptism at Notre Dame on 14 June 1856 , a long delay having been necessary because the Empress had been so weak after the birth that she was unable to leave her bed for months . |
| 11 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 12 | After a long day sitting in the coach , I decided to get out at Millcote , leave my luggage at the hotel , and walk across the fields to Thornfield . |
| 13 | After a long day filming , our three Busmen went off with notes on everything from the capital of Grand Cayman to the flag of Ougodogoland . |
| 14 | Viewed from the adjacent lane is a long wall showing various features from different periods of the mill 's history . |
| 15 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 16 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was a long way carrying the baby . ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm used to walking a long way carrying the baby . ’ |
| 19 | The road along the glen is a leafy avenue for four miles to Polldubh , rising hardly at all in this distance but , after crossing the river over an exuberant cascade , climbs steadily for two more miles to a large car park at its terminus , passing a long waterslide coming down from Ben Nevis , which is unseen but directly above and 4000 feet higher . |
| 20 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 21 | After a song and a prayer , a priest in green vestments came on and preached a long sermon warning us all not to misuse authority . |
| 22 | A series of synthetic compounds , with a long pedigree going back to the work of Crum Brown and Fraser in the 1860s ( see chapter 2 ) , were produced simultaneously by R. B. Barlow and H. R. Ing in the Pharmacology Laboratory at Oxford and by W. D. M. ( later Sir William ) Paton and Eleanor Zaimis at the National Institute for Medical Research . |
| 23 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 24 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 25 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 26 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 27 | He walked swiftly to the reception counter midway down a long hall leading to Dover Street . |
| 28 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 29 | There was a long promontory thrusting out to sea , with a deep inlet to either side where the tide sucked and swirled among fallen rocks . |
| 30 | A sherd found in the 1958 excavations on the route of the A1 at Water Newton shows a small creature with a long tail riding a horse and holding in a hand , with long slender fingers , a standard ( fig. 14.10 ) . |