Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 2 | Eight miles later , when they were coasting down a long hill , the engine spluttered . |
| 3 | Well were going for a long weekend , like the Bank Holiday weekend . |
| 4 | They had arrived outside and her cases were deposited in a long silver car that Jenna thought must be a foreign make , probably Italian . |
| 5 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 6 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 7 | Wheat was cut with a toothed sickle and bound by hand , barley and oats were cut with a long scythe and cradle and bound by hand . |
| 8 | Christmas puddings , jars of mincemeat , bunches of holly , fruit , nuts , table-mats , serviette-rings and dozens of other useful little articles they had made carefully and patiently were spread over a long trestle table in the hall . |
| 9 | ‘ You were talking for a long time , ’ she said . |
| 10 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 11 | As lithium salts were not amenable to being patented , they did not attract the attention of the drug industry : also they had a bad reputation for their toxic effects , and so Cade 's findings were neglected for a long time . |
| 12 | Doubts about his motivation were expressed during a long absence through injury last season , and Jarvis claims : ‘ It was pretty obvious that some people thought there was n't really much wrong with me . |
| 13 | The silence was eased by a long wail from a ship 's hooter from downstream . |
| 14 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 15 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 16 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 17 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 18 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 19 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
| 20 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 21 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 22 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 23 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 24 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 25 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 26 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 27 | In 1805 Jesty gave his evidence in London at the institute 's invitation , when he was presented with a long testimonial and pair of gold-mounted lancets . |
| 28 | I was relaxing for a long time . |
| 29 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 30 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |