Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Hudson Report received a general welcome from interested parties in agricultural education but , like reports on many other areas of further education , nothing happened for a long time . |
| 32 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 33 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 34 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 35 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 36 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 37 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 38 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 39 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 40 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 41 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 42 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 43 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 44 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 45 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 46 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 47 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 48 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 49 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 50 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 51 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 52 | She stared through the long net curtains out on to the ‘ tZand , empty now in the thickening twilight , and suddenly her wariness dissolved . |
| 53 | With the taste of blood still hot on her tongue , she sang in a long , keening cry of the joys of the kill … |
| 54 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 55 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 56 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 57 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 58 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 59 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 60 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |