Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1	Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
2	Susie did not reply for a long time .
3	Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ?
4	What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents .
5	She did n't breathe for a long time .
6	The kind of music she had not heard for a long time .
7	She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
8	Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again .
9	‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
10	She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
11	" You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it .
12	There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time .
13	He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee .
14	I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time .
15	This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities .
16	She did see the yachtsman as she trekked back to start on the long walk home , and she went towards him .

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