Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 2 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 3 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 4 | Do they survive for a long time ? |
| 5 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 6 | They came in a long winding string of wagons , horses , barking dogs , dancing children and donkeys . |
| 7 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 8 | Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ? |
| 9 | They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides . |
| 10 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 11 | The door closed on them slowly ; they thinned into a long , faint strand of light and vanished , and everything was dark , dark for three days ; except that now there was no way of distinguishing night from day , and time , like hope and pleasure and companionship and all the human things it measured , had stopped . |
| 12 | And a couple of days ago Fergus had suggested they go for a longer hike , up into the trackless hills where the Landy could n't reach . |
| 13 | But then again there have n't really been any bands that have said what they felt in a long time . ’ |
| 14 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 15 | See what they do with a long pink flannel ? |
| 16 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 17 | Especially when they come from a long way , away . |
| 18 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 19 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 20 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 21 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 22 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 23 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |