Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 2 | These low potencies were often given over long periods , and frequently mixtures of different remedies were used . |
| 3 | Such patients were subsequently managed by long term sclerotherapy using the regime outlined earlier . |
| 4 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |
| 5 | This was especially marked for long chain n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 6 | There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass . |