Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 2 | One hot summer afternoon Tony , John and Pip were cutting the long grass . |
| 3 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 4 | Now , the mechanical coal-cutter , the conveyor belt , and the steel arch for roof support were quickly supplanting the old hand-methods , and for the stalls were substituting the long face where the coal-cutter undercut a greater length of the coal-seam , and the colliers , instead of working in pairs , now worked in groups , filling the coal on to the moving conveyor belt that ran parallel to the face . |
| 5 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 6 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 7 | Umberto , Alejandro 's laziest groom , was holding tightly on to her , while Raimundo , who was wearing a leather apron to protect his Gaucho pants , his little eyes glinting with pleasure and cruelty , was attaching a long lead rope to her headcollar . |
| 8 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 9 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 10 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped . |
| 12 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 13 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 14 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 15 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 16 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 17 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 18 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 19 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 20 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 21 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 22 | Woolley was making a long telephone call . |
| 23 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 24 | The Japanese boy was playing the long hole with quite masterful wisdom . |
| 25 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |