Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Basing myself on long experience of Churchill over the India Bill , I decided to disregard what he said and go straight ahead . ’ |
| 2 | But why does this event persist in subjecting us to long rows of tap dancers , a breed of people whose only function in life is to display the disgusting effects of sweat and sequins under neon ? |
| 3 | Ramses 's son called to people he knew on the banks , hailing them with long drawn-out greetings . |
| 4 | Ward 's voice was saying something about long distance aircraft , Gómez answering him more audibly , ‘ It 's not possible . |
| 5 | Namely this … ’ he paused , regarding her through long , thick lashes ‘ … if I had agreed to your proposal to pay off your debt to me in instalments , how long do you reckon it would have taken you ? ’ |
| 6 | The fact you feel the company is exploiting you with long hours of work and low pay is no reason to exploit the company with expense abuse . |
| 7 | It was as though the very innermost lining of my already emptied stomach was violently detaching itself into long , coppery green strands of rejected bile . |
| 8 | In no time senators were renaming themselves with longer and longer titles so that their seconds should be bigger than everyone else 's . |