Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 2 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 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 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | She looked over at the long table . |
| 9 | Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 11 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 12 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 13 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 14 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 15 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 16 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 17 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 18 | He clambered up behind the long bonnet , onto the padded bucket seat . |
| 19 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 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 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 25 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 29 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |