Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 3 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 4 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 5 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 6 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 7 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |