Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 2 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 3 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 4 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 5 | Ann has n't done a lot of cooking for a long time though , have you really ? |
| 6 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 7 | That way , by walking between the long tables as if on a tour of inspection , they could view the prospects without embarrassment . |
| 8 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 9 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 10 | The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours . |
| 11 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 12 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 13 | Entering and leaving conversation , bidding for a longer turn , refusing without appearing rude , changing the topic , are all notoriously difficult for foreign learners : tasks for which the language classroom , where turns are patiently organized and controlled by the teacher , has hardly prepared them . |
| 14 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 15 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 16 | They clinked their glasses ; then Martin , walking towards the long window , said , ‘ It 's a good job I did n't become engaged ; you should n't get married at a time like this . ’ |
| 17 | A tall , slim woman in her early fifties waved as the car approached and , walking with a long , easy stride , she came towards them . |
| 18 | Lucenzo dragged her bags with him and muttered under his breath about their bulk while Meredith stoically forced her exhausted body after his dark figure , her legs aching with the long climb . |
| 19 | Biff was launching into a long , familiar complaint . |
| 20 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 21 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |
| 22 | She felt lonely and chilled , walking along the long , brown passages , past secret doors , shut tight . |
| 23 | The spots of the leopard ( opposite ) lurking in the long grass help to destroy the solidity of its form , and the dappled patches on the coat of the clouded leopard ( above , left ) conceal it well in the broken light of the forest . |
| 24 | NSPCC brass FIVE young brass players will be appearing in the Long Room of Eaton Hall next week to raise money for the NSPCC . |
| 25 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 26 | She was walking beside the long wall of the secret garden , when a most wonderful thing happened . |
| 27 | The visual equivalent of it would be driving down a long street . |
| 28 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 29 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 30 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |