Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 2 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 3 | King 's Highway ( 17 ) : Edom 's refusal to let Israel pass along this main road involves them in a long detour south and round . |
| 4 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 5 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 6 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 7 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 8 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 9 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 10 | When a child loves you for a long , long time , says the Skin Horse , then you gradually become Real . |
| 11 | The explanation seems to be that consecutive measurements have been found to be very consistent , whatever variation exists manifests itself over a longer period corresponding to several averaged measurements . |
| 12 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 13 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 14 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 15 | ‘ Her legs were bandaged in leather swathes , protecting her from the long , cruel needles of the prickly pear . |
| 16 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 17 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 18 | a cast iron logical argument you could you could then even phase it over a longer period |
| 19 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 20 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 21 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 22 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 23 | The rest of the company ranged themselves around the long , cold room , their backs to the wall , their eyes on the man opposite , their faces utterly inexpressive . |
| 24 | How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’ |
| 25 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 26 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 27 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 28 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 29 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |