Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 2 | They have mail tunics and basic helmets whilst their banner is a typical ‘ dragon ’ or tubular device carried on a long shaft . |
| 3 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 4 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 5 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 6 | The Bishop picked up a long thin parchment-knife and balanced it in a vein-streaked , brown-spotted hand . |