Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 2 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 3 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
| 4 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 5 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 6 | I prefer the consistent VIKING ROCKET , who ran well for a long way behind Captain Dibble in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 7 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 8 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 9 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 10 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 11 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 12 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 13 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 14 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 15 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 17 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 18 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 19 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 20 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 21 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 22 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 23 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 24 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 26 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 27 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 28 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 29 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 30 | He stayed there for a long time . |