Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 2 | Has known about her a long time . |
| 3 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
| 4 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 5 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 6 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |