Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corner 's been quickly taken and knocked in long but cleared again by Leicester . |
| 2 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 3 | Rose , exhausted with running , slackened her pace a little and took in long gulps of air . |
| 4 | THE fighting in North Africa ceased on May 12 , 1943 , when the German and Italian soldiers , ordered by their commanders to surrender , laid down their arms and marched in long columns , defeated but still proud , into years of captivity . |
| 5 | At Huddersfield he developed into an expert practitioner of the art of inside passing , a tactic Chapman had first encouraged at Northampton and preferred to long centres from the wing . |
| 6 | She had discarded the dirty wrapper she had been wearing and had on long silky black stockings and suspenders , a black peephole bra and crutchless panties . |
| 7 | Plummer swallowed hard and froze for long seconds . |