Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , women sat squeezed together on long wooden benches . |
| 2 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 3 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 4 | He walked rapidly with long swinging strides , was seldom ill , and had a probing curiosity . |
| 5 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 6 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 7 | These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers . |
| 8 | The brambles of the garden had forced their way through one pane , and stretched in over the ledge , curling upwards like long scrawny fingers . |