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 | Once they were married adults they settled down for longer periods . |
10 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
11 | This seemed to quieten Oliver ; his screams died down into long , big sobs that made him shake all over . |
12 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
13 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
16 | These are more effective than shampoos because they are applied directly to the scalp and left on for longer . |
17 | 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 . |