Example sentences of "[v-ing] at long " in BNC.

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1 Windy conditions did n't stop the fish feeding at Long Load drainage channel at Martock in Somerset , as Matthew Lee discovered when he tempted a 5 lb 4 oz bream from the venue .
2 Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts .
3 Deryck Healey 's ‘ Meditation Works ’ , a series of twenty-five dark and luminous works on paper pinned to the wall like Japanese banners , are showing at Long and Ryle ( 4–28 November ) .
4 We went into a room where all these children were sitting at long rows of tables .
5 I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut .
6 Meanwhile working at Long Lartin remains a depressing business …
7 The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year .
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