Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war cast long shadows across the Atlantic . |
| 2 | These were not popular and as most women wore trousers or dungarees for the war work , hand knitted long socks or ankle socks were more comfortable and convenient . |
| 3 | He stayed a fortnight , and during that time dined memorably on honey pie , made an even more unfavourable impression at Marshmills , and no doubt spent long hours talking in Poole 's garden arbour , ‘ an Elysium ’ , as he called it , in which he had already recited many of his recent poems . |
| 4 | A well-worn path not marked on the map that may have been an old link between Gawthrop and the track called Long Bank that crosses Middleton Fell , leads to the right of the crags into a slight outcrop of rock marked by a lone hawthorn . |
| 5 | The first photographs required long exposures , and animals can not be expected to sit still as long as Victorian adults did ; but by the last quarter of the nineteenth century fast exposures were possible . |