Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | They spoke briefly , and to the point , walking slowly towards the long , black limousine that would take Cowley back to CI5 headquarters . |
| 3 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 4 | Excitement for many at the thought of returning home after the long hard years in exile . |
| 5 | ‘ Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply . |
| 6 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 7 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 8 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 9 | We 'll be looking forward to the longest raft race in the world . |
| 10 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 11 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 12 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 13 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 14 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 15 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 16 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 17 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 18 | The police car , cruising comfortably up the long hill out of town , came to a halt outside the Gothic-Victorian pile of St Aloysius . |
| 19 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 20 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 21 | He finished fourth to Baies and The Thinker at Haydock last week , running well for a long way . |
| 22 | Further to the north , along the ice-bound coast of Marie Byrd Land are more volcanoes , and a well-defined belt soon becomes established , swinging away into the long , crooked arm of the Graham Land peninsula , and then eastwards into a scatter of desolate , little-known volcanic islands , the South Sandwich Islands . |
| 23 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 24 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 25 | We sat on the cloud covered summit , two Scots and three Germans , eating chocolate and sandwiches , the last party of the day , thinking apprehensively of the long way back but all happy to have reached the top . |
| 26 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |