Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 2 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 3 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 4 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 5 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 6 | When his mouth engulfed her sex she held in a long breath . |
| 7 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 8 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 9 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 10 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |