Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 4 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 5 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 6 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |