Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [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 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
5 | 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 |
6 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
10 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
11 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
15 | 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 . |