Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] long [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s .
2 Aggie drew in a long breath and glanced at the child before answering Ben .
3 ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’
4 He saw Celia sitting under a large cedar tree in the garden when he drove up the long drive and swung the car round into the forecourt .
5 So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went !
6 She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext .
7 But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before .
8 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
9 I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals .
10 They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance .
11 He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room .
12 One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 .
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