Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 2 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 3 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 4 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 5 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 7 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 8 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 9 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 10 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 11 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 12 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 13 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 15 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 16 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 17 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 18 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 19 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 20 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
| 21 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 22 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 23 | The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head . |
| 24 | Managers are naturally biased towards projects showing a quick return , if they feel there is unlikely to be ex post settling up over the longer term . |
| 25 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |