Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved quickly to examine the long narrow table that had forms on either side , and although it looked clean enough she was not happy until she had washed it . |
| 2 | As far as I know , she went on to live a long life , enjoyed the notoriety , and used it to advantage in the family business , exploiting rumours of her Evil Eye to scare off creditors , and to get the best out of every bargain . ’ |
| 3 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 4 | He then went on to provide a long list , not of items that we could accept , but of items that we could not accept . |
| 5 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 6 | Mercifully the illness did not take a long course . |
| 7 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 8 | Ranks of fomaica-topped tables were besieged by steel chairs , which did not encourage a long stay . |
| 9 | Tanner was drinking lager , and Maxim wanted one as well , after the warm sticky cross-town journey , but he did n't want a long , bulky drink in his stomach . |
| 10 | she did n't want a long one . |
| 11 | I did n't want the long journey in to work each day so I let it to Professor Wendell . |
| 12 | they came look , they came this way , they did n't go , they did n't go the long way round , I believe ya , they came this way up here |
| 13 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 14 | The directors did n't work the long hours we did ! |
| 15 | Er not , not the long one , we did n't have a long one we had a rou oval one . |
| 16 | Did n't have a long walk or anything so the next schedule go out is erm is |
| 17 | The man did n't have a long time to go through a process , he did n't have a long time to find where he was on on the scale , a and er , you know , from one stage to the next stage , to the next stage , to got through a pre-evangelism and then another stage , and another stage , the man did n't have time he was dying ! |
| 18 | The man did n't have a long time to go through a process , he did n't have a long time to find where he was on on the scale , a and er , you know , from one stage to the next stage , to the next stage , to got through a pre-evangelism and then another stage , and another stage , the man did n't have time he was dying ! |
| 19 | I ignored it and carried on taking a long break . |
| 20 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 21 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 22 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 23 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 24 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 25 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 26 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 27 | The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors . |
| 28 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 29 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 30 | The original bothy had now become a long low front room , with settees and coffee tables , and the beds had been put in the annexe . |