Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall
2 Seem to put them away for a long while but
3 Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair .
4 I have known you well over a long period of time .
5 Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances .
6 He looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment before nodding .
7 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
8 Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch .
9 Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows .
10 Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air .
11 ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’
12 I see him back in the long term as county captain .
13 ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’
14 They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance .
15 He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness .
16 He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull .
17 She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown .
18 E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it .
19 When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side .
20 So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run .
21 As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere .
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