Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 3 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 4 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 5 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 6 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |