Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We look forward to a long and growing relationship . ’ |
| 2 | He walked swiftly to the reception counter midway down a long hall leading to Dover Street . |
| 3 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 4 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 5 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 6 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |