Example sentences of "that [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew her mother 's moods ; she recognised the strain of annoyance that drew the long delicate features of her face into a severe mask . |
| 2 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 4 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 5 | She held the lead and quietly plodded upward through the crisp snow that covered the long Baskan Glacier . |
| 6 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 7 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 8 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 9 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 10 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 11 | I would n't do anything that took a long , long time before it showed a reward . |
| 12 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |
| 13 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 14 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 15 | The boat left a wake that rocked the long drifts of dead leaves on the water and slapped against the quay below them . |
| 16 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 17 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |