Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence was eased by a long wail from a ship 's hooter from downstream . |
| 2 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 3 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 4 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 5 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 6 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 7 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
| 8 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 9 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 10 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 11 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 12 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 13 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 14 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 15 | In 1805 Jesty gave his evidence in London at the institute 's invitation , when he was presented with a long testimonial and pair of gold-mounted lancets . |
| 16 | I was relaxing for a long time . |
| 17 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 18 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 19 | Situated on the outskirts of Cullbridge , it was reached by a long drive edged by trees and shrubs . |
| 20 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 21 | Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers . |
| 22 | Discussions on the subject had begun late in November , when the ‘ old navigator ’ had first became part of their lives , but Dorothy 's remark at the end of their walking tour that Coleridge 's poem would appear ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ was followed by a long silence . |
| 23 | After the revolution , B. A. Henman , the Registrar of the Royal Society of Chemistry , explained that Elena Ceauşescu 's ‘ application was supported by a long list of papers published in her name … |
| 24 | When he took his seat , the trumpets blew and the dinner was served by a long line of servants who carried in plates of steaming hot boar 's meat , brawn , beef , sturgeon , fish , bowls of cream containing sugared strawberries , and jug after jug of different wines . |
| 25 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 26 | British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England . |
| 27 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |
| 28 | It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green . |
| 29 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 30 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |