Example sentences of "and [verb] in a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the connection of transgressive desire with forgetfulness and oblivion is important and follows in a long tradition : religious , mystical , or romantic or some combination of all these . |
| 2 | Bigwig jumped down from the bank into the field and ran in a long curve across the wet grass . |
| 3 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 4 | Meanwhile people went in and out of the pharmacy but only two women of conceivably Agnes 's age : one very tall and striding in a long ethnic-of-somewhere skirt the other short and waddling , flat-heeled long blonde hair dark jacket and beret and a huge shoulder bag . |
| 5 | The land was originally a corn field and runs in a long narrow strip , still bordered by fields . |
| 6 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |