Example sentences of "[vb past] in [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasshoppers churred in the long grass . |
| 2 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 3 | The rush over , Maggie drew in a long breath , and turning to the supervisor who was hovering in the background , she asked , ‘ All right if we go ? ’ |
| 4 | Aggie drew in a long breath and glanced at the child before answering Ben . |
| 5 | Aggie drew in a long breath , bowed her head slightly and said , ‘ Aye , I know you did , love ; but come and sit down a minute . ’ |
| 6 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |
| 7 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 8 | A piano tinkled in the long afternoon , all afternoons being long now ; an old lady , her eyes closed , hummed a relic of a long-forgotten act , not that it would be forgotten here . |
| 9 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 10 | BP 's Miller platform ; one of three included in a long term contract awarded to the division during 1992 . |
| 11 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 12 | But then again there have n't really been any bands that have said what they felt in a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Peonies and the smaller varieties of shrubs grew in a long border , stuffed with other treasures and backed by apple trees , grown espalier . |
| 14 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 15 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
| 16 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 17 | Claudia looked in the long mirror for the last time , and her breath caught in her throat ; that beautiful bride could n't be her . |
| 18 | He took in a long breath , held it and squeezed the handle of the cutters . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 20 | Bigwig jumped down from the bank into the field and ran in a long curve across the wet grass . |
| 21 | In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping . |
| 22 | Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means . |
| 23 | In that year a senior master and professor of psychology , Eliot Hearst of Indiana University , wrote in a long review article : ‘ About the only way a current computer program could ever win a single game against a master player would be for the master , perhaps in a drunken stupor while playing 50 games simultaneously , to commit some once-in-a-year blunder … |
| 24 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 25 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 26 | When his mouth engulfed her sex she held in a long breath . |
| 27 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 28 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 29 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |