Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 2 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |