Example sentences of "there [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed a long talk about books . |
| 2 | There followed a long , lingering time of sheer ecstasy , as his busy fingers stroked oil into her back and belly and buttocks . |
| 3 | There followed a long wrangle over Benedict 's future , which Sir John Merchiston eventually won by virtue of the fact that Robert Beckenham 's new wife was delivered of a boy . |
| 4 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 5 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 6 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 7 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 8 | There have been remarkable achievements here which must not be blurred by the fact that there remains a long way to go ’ . |
| 9 | If the comments published in your magazine are typical , even the canoeing fraternity there have a long way to go . |