Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a mixture of emotions , too complex to analyse , were welling up inside Robyn , as he manoeuvred the long , sleek Jaguar into a convenient space outside the house she had directed him to . |
| 2 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 3 | Julia followed him through a tall , wrought-iron gate and waited on the weedy gravel in front of the pale yellow walls of a large square villa as he pulled a long , iron bell . |
| 4 | The man smiled at him as he guided the long snaking bundle into a bay near the automatic doors . |
| 5 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |