Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 5 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 6 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 7 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 8 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 9 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 10 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 11 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 12 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 13 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 14 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 15 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 16 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 17 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 18 | The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head . |
| 19 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 20 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 21 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 22 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |