Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 32 | President Vieira on Nov. 6 returned abruptly after a long period abroad , during which time he had received medical treatment and visited the United States and Taiwan . |
| 33 | The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame , belching smoke . |
| 34 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 35 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 36 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 37 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 38 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 39 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 40 | Angel 's fingers drummed angrily on the steering wheel as he gazed moodily at the long , straight road ahead of them . |
| 41 | Willie clutched on to the long wooden seat and , as they jolted over the rough cobbled road , his eyelids drooped and he became drowsy . |
| 42 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 43 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 44 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 45 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 46 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 47 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 48 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 49 | That went on for a long time . |
| 50 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 51 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 52 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 53 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 54 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 55 | This went on for a long time . |
| 56 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 57 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 58 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 59 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 60 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |