Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ?
2 In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys .
3 and came out of Long Beach we 'll miss it
4 Came out of Long Beach Road we 'll miss it .
5 Mr Bumble walked on with long steps , with Oliver on his short little legs running beside him .
6 We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits .
7 The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation .
8 Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits .
9 All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans .
10 He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies .
11 Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car .
12 In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics .
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