Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 2 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 3 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 4 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 5 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 6 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Listen for its slurred , gulping notes , increasing in speed and loudness , ’ reads one report , ‘ notes which are often drawn out into a long whistling finale . ’ |
| 8 | They are well spread out down the long narrow winding village , built originally along the edge of marshland , hence the ‘ Sea-ton ’ . |
| 9 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 10 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 11 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |
| 12 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |