Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 2 | Continuing with their long run of Bond licences , Domark released this uninspiring conversion . |
| 3 | EACH GREENHOUSE WE SELL IS DESIGNED AND BUILT SPECIALLY DRAWING ON OUR LONG EXPERIENCE OF MEETING THE INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS . |
| 4 | Daisy Pettigrew changed her reading for her long distance glasses , so that she could see the vicarage garden more clearly . |
| 5 | Sir Geoff Mulcahy , the chairman and chief executive , sees a few tentative signs that shoppers are slowly emerging from their long hibernation , but they are doing so very warily . |
| 6 | As we 're leaving for our long drive home , Ali walks us to the car and closes our doors . |
| 7 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 8 | Four or five hundred yards from the black hole the trees on the slope had sagged towards each other , disturbed by the human moles working beneath their long roots . |
| 9 | The male is easily identified during mating by his long penis , which is kept retracted at other times . |