Example sentences of "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 . |