Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen leaned over my shoulder and gazed at the long lines of boy scouts , girl guides , ex-servicemen , with half the population of the town packed on the pavements , watching . |
| 2 | She closed her eyes again , tossed and turned for a long time , then finally managed to get a couple of hours of disturbed sleep . |
| 3 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 4 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 5 | They stayed on the hill and talked for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ I have no intention of meeting her , ’ Jenna began , but he too stood and looked towards the long windows as a car came speedily to the house . |
| 7 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |
| 8 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
| 9 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 10 | He answered Buckmaster 's question as he turned off the road between lodge gates and proceeded down the long drive across open parkland . |
| 11 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 12 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 13 | During her researches she went to Lord 's to examine the immense collection which belongs to the MCC and went into the Long Room . |
| 14 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 15 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 16 | It stayed there and grew for a long time , until it was a real baby . |
| 17 | They turned into the dining room , and gasped at the long row of glowing candles which stretched down the table to the further limits of vision . |
| 18 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 19 | Its exceptionally shaggy coat , almost yak-like , covers its face as well as its body , and becomes matted and felted after a long winter . |
| 20 | Bigwig jumped down from the bank into the field and ran in a long curve across the wet grass . |
| 21 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 22 | This brought one of Neil 's cracks of laughter and the comment , ‘ A wily gent , I see , ’ and then silence took over again , and lasted for a long time , until the front door opened , and Matey returned from the sewing circle at St Jude 's Church Hall , and stared at them , sitting there in the dusk , hunched over the board , rapt . |
| 23 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 24 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 25 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 26 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 27 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 28 | She had showered and washed her hair , dabbed on her favourite Anaïs Anaïs , and stood before the long mirror in her bedroom , criticising her reflection . |
| 29 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |