Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 2 | Excitement for many at the thought of returning home after the long hard years in exile . |
| 3 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 4 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 5 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 6 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 7 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |