Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 2 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 4 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 5 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 6 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 7 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 8 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 9 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 10 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 11 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 12 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 13 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 14 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 15 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 16 | She looked over at the long table . |
| 17 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 18 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 19 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 20 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 21 | We look forward to a long and growing relationship . ’ |
| 22 | I do have some sympathy for cou councillor I do know this area and I I do know the traffic problems there and and we do really in the long term need to do something about it . |
| 23 | Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . |
| 24 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 25 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 26 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 27 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 28 | They turned abruptly into the long gardens of the Inner Temple , fenced off from sightseers . |
| 29 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 30 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |