Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 2 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 3 | Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb . |
| 4 | BP 's Miller platform ; one of three included in a long term contract awarded to the division during 1992 . |
| 5 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 6 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 7 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 8 | Prehistoric started with a long pan over a series of cave murals : a man , a woman , a fight , a fuck , a tiger — a spaceship . |
| 9 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 10 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |