Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 2 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 4 | The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go . |
| 5 | They drew a long covert upwind between Queen Hoo Hall and Bramfield . |
| 6 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |
| 7 | They joined the long silent line of monks filing into the church . |
| 8 | ‘ The Dragon first ! ’ shouted Melanie , so they joined the long line snaking round the barriers . |
| 9 | ‘ He had the look of somebody about to invite you home to cold chicken and salad with a mug of real warm English beer , ’ she continued as they walked the long black-and-white-tiled corridor . |
| 10 | Abandoning their bicycles they began the long trudge to Emily 's mysterious destination . |
| 11 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 12 | They reached the town and drove through its narrow , deserted streets , then they began the long , steady climb to the moor . |
| 13 | They exchanged a long , hard look . |
| 14 | They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke . |
| 15 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 16 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |
| 17 | They trailed a long rope ( the only way of escaping off this severely overhanging route ) all the way up and through the grade to be ‘ mild E6 ’ . |
| 18 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 19 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 20 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 21 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 22 | The coastal strip was flat and uninteresting , the juddering vehicle hot and noisy , and she breathed a heartfelt sigh of relief when they reached the long bridge linking Venice with the mainland . |
| 23 | ‘ I can walk down here , ’ she told him when they reached the long gallery . |
| 24 | Above all they presented a long established ranking order : gold and silver for higher denominations in descending order and non-precious copper for small change . |
| 25 | ( They had a long argument over this . ) |
| 26 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 27 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 28 | They had a long way to go . |
| 29 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 30 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |