Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 2 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 3 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 4 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 5 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 6 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 7 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 11 | The cab drove steadily out of Brighton on the London Road , and then , at the summit of the Downs , turned left down a long lane . |
| 12 | President Vieira on Nov. 6 returned abruptly after a long period abroad , during which time he had received medical treatment and visited the United States and Taiwan . |
| 13 | The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame , belching smoke . |
| 14 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 15 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 16 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 19 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 21 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 22 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 23 | That went on for a long time . |
| 24 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 25 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 26 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 27 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 28 | This went on for a long time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |