Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 2 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 3 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 4 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 5 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 6 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 7 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 8 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |