Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 2 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 3 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 4 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 5 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 6 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 7 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 8 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 9 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 10 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 11 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 12 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 13 | The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame , belching smoke . |
| 14 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 15 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |
| 16 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 17 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 18 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 19 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 21 | ‘ It was so untimely , ’ the Commander said passionately after a long silence , ‘ so very untimely . ’ |