Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 2 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 3 | Charlotte turned , before getting into the car , and looked back once in a long , sweeping survey of the twilit bowl of turf and stone . |
| 4 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 5 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 6 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 7 | Eachuinn Odhar stood absolutely still for a long , long breath . |