Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 2 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 3 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 4 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 5 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 7 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 8 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 9 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 10 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 11 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 12 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 13 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |