Example sentences of "were [v-ing] a long " 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 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 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 | By 1957 almost half a million French troops , mostly young draftees or reservists but with a substantial leavening of Foreign Legionnaires and other regulars , were fighting a long and brutal war in Algeria against the forces of an independence movement known as the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ) . |
| 5 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 6 | The steep pillar initially intended was being examined by Vic and Steve , while the others were trying a longer more circuitous route which looked technically easier . |
| 7 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |