Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 2 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 3 | and came out of Long Beach we 'll miss it |
| 4 | Came out of Long Beach Road we 'll miss it . |
| 5 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 6 | Mr Bumble walked on with long steps , with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him . |
| 7 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 8 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 9 | This seemed to quieten Oliver ; his screams died down into long , big sobs that made him shake all over . |
| 10 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 11 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
| 12 | He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies . |
| 13 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 14 | In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics . |