Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 2 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 3 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 4 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 5 | Earlier that day , when school had ended at a quarter to four , Hilary Frome had walked down the long road towards Cullbridge with Willis and Quigly . |
| 6 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 7 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 8 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 9 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |
| 10 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |