Example sentences of "i [modal v] [vb infin] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 2 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll get a long , long rest when I get in me box , miss . |
| 4 | you take the high road and I 'll take the long road and I 'll be in Scotland |
| 5 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |
| 6 | In the candle-light I could see a long table , in the middle of which was a large yellow shape , with hundreds of insects feeding off it . |
| 7 | Through the glass I could see the long lines of blue moving away down the street and I could still hear the shouts of the corporal . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like a long , cold drink , please , ’ she murmured , ‘ something really refreshing . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 10 | I shall write a long poem about what I saw shining from the other side . ’ |
| 11 | Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’ |
| 12 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |