Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1	The early morning was cool and birds still chattered in the long grasses along the line .
2	While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War .
3	The first summons habitually began with a long and belligerent explanation of why some other weekend was not possible .
4	And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home .
5	Or , the Doctrine of the Sabbath ( 1649 ) ; the licence in this case granted by Joseph Caryl , a divine who frequently preached before the Long Parliament .
6	‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men .
7	She now knelt down by Robbie Felton 's side and tentatively , she put her hand inside his thick blue cloth jacket , then drew in a long slow breath when she could feel the beating of his heart .
8	Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay .
9	He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side .
10	She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit .
11	The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent .
12	I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals .

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