Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 2 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 3 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 4 | She indulged in a blissfully long bath , taking time to wash her hair and then comb it out , before drying it with a hand drier . |
| 5 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |
| 6 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 7 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 8 | It opens with a very long sex scene in a small apartment . |
| 9 | It comes with an extra long lead and a fitted plug and costs £29.95 from Boots , Argos , leading department stores and electrical retailers . |
| 10 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |
| 11 | We had arrived in San Francisco on Monday , after what seemed like an extremely long flight . |