Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their eyes met in a long , arching stare . |
| 2 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 3 | A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss . |
| 4 | She unfastened her own belt , and as her arms wound about his neck their lips met in a long kiss . |
| 5 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 6 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 7 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |