Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 2 | Cindy Hill breathed out a long sigh of relief . |
| 3 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 4 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 5 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 6 | Hans let out a long breath . |
| 7 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 8 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 9 | They have mail tunics and basic helmets whilst their banner is a typical ‘ dragon ’ or tubular device carried on a long shaft . |
| 10 | Harry let out a long breath . |
| 11 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 12 | Ellen Harker let out a long breath and relaxed visibly . |
| 13 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 14 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 15 | Middlemass stretched out a long arm and held the instrument to his left ear . |
| 16 | The armies that came to Lebanon marched down a long , dull tunnel that inevitably ended in brown smoke and pieces of flesh . |
| 17 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 18 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 19 | Robyn let out a long , quivering breath and felt the treacherous ache in her body . |
| 20 | Evans let out a long whistle . |
| 21 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 22 | Later , when they were in their bedroom , preparing for Evensong , John pulled out a long legal envelope from his travelling writing case and said : ‘ Here is my real present to you . |
| 23 | Then one of the goats chewed up a long roll of film and swallowed it . |
| 24 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 25 | The Bishop picked up a long thin parchment-knife and balanced it in a vein-streaked , brown-spotted hand . |