Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 2 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 3 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 4 | Colour another 225g 18oz ) of the marzipan green , and roll out into a long wide strip . |
| 5 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 6 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 8 | Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube . |
| 9 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 10 | ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |
| 12 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 13 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 14 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |