Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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1 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |