Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 2 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 3 | In Levene v Pearcey [ 1976 ] Crim LR 63 , a taxi-driver falsely told his passenger that the route was blocked and charged more for the longer way . |
| 4 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 5 | Scottie loved travelling and behaved splendidly during the long drives and sailing periods . |
| 6 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 7 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 8 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 9 | Jules took a piece of pandoli and chewed contentedly on the long biscuit . |
| 10 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 12 | The courtyard was no longer floodlit but the moon was brilliant , filling the room with light , and Maggie slid from her bed and went quickly to the long window that led to the veranda . |
| 13 | Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube . |
| 14 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 15 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 16 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 17 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 18 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |