Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painted red , of course , with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches , a recessed bonnet , a short roof tapering into a long , descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear . |
| 2 | The correct word-path is excluded from many mid and mixed utterances because an alternative parsing into a long word is preferred . |
| 3 | A hedge position is a portfolio consisting of a long or short share and one or more of the available options on that share . |
| 4 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 5 | We have here a wide , flat valley filled with sediment passing into a long parallel-sided sea reminiscent of many ancient sedimentary troughs . |
| 6 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 7 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 9 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 10 | I stood outside his door listening for a long time ; there was n't a sound . |
| 11 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 12 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |
| 13 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 14 | Northern European warriors also used the halberd , which consisted of an axe blade balanced by a pick , with the head of the shaft terminating in a long , vicious spike . |