Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you get long beep , short beep , long beep , short beep , that 's the successful switching tone , you 'll know it 's worked , and you go trotting back to your office , you get 75 seconds again , it 's like the hold , before it starts to ring , or you can access it by keying in what ? |
| 2 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 3 | Inevitably I spent long periods sitting in the staff room waiting for staff to find time for an interview . |
| 4 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 5 | Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent . |
| 6 | Then I inhale long and slowly , because it 's for me to make the move . |
| 7 | Sometimes she wrote long letters in French to Monsieur Héger , but no letters came from him . |
| 8 | Sometimes she rests long minutes in the grass forest |
| 9 | So faint , it might only be moonlight through the clouds — then she saw long pale hair streaming . |