Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words finished on a long , drawn breath while she waited for the words she had no wish to hear . |
| 2 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 3 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 4 | Sunday winter evenings by the dining-room fire were very special — crumpets toasted on a long toasting fork by the fire ; watching the changing colours of the flames , and the sparks which shot into the chimney . |
| 5 | Light green whorls of finely branched , feather-like leaves arranged on a long , green , wiry stem . |