Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked across the long row of pens . |
| 2 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 3 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 4 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 5 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |
| 6 | His large untidy head was set close to shoulders which rubbed against the long lobes of his ears . |
| 7 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She stared through the long net curtains out on to the ‘ tZand , empty now in the thickening twilight , and suddenly her wariness dissolved . |
| 16 | She remained in the long druggeted corridor , a crumpled figure in a pink dressing gown watching the forests spinning madly by . |
| 17 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 18 | We happily planned a day hike as we swam in the long blue lake while butterflies fluttered around us . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 20 | Matters had not proceeded entirely without the odd hitch or two for the young couple — mainly because the bride was heavily pregnant with a child , one conceived during the long dry summer of 1807 . |
| 21 | At least we did for the longer |
| 22 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 23 | In America , partly because of more recycling , safeguards depended more on full accounting for the nuclear materials themselves as they passed through the long and complex procedures . |
| 24 | They fought with the long gate into Dobbs ' field and Tom checked that she was sheltered . |
| 25 | As they approached down the long corridor she could see George , the sacrificial dummy , slumped over the console : the bait for Forster 's trap . |
| 26 | When they complained of the long hours , Peckinpah had them fired . |
| 27 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |
| 28 | They hurried through the long arch , dodging between the workers who were making their way to London Bridge Station , and then quickly crossed St Thomas 's Street and hurried through the high , wide gates of Guy 's Hospital . |
| 29 | His position — the position , indeed , to which he clung throughout the long controversy — is made clear in his reply to the Staufer and in the early letters of the register . |
| 30 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |