Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 2 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 3 | Nor can any athlete look forward to a long and healthy life if they use drugs to aid their performance . |
| 4 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 5 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 6 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 7 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 8 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 9 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 10 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 11 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 12 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 13 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 14 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 15 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 16 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 17 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 18 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 19 | The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame , belching smoke . |
| 20 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 21 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 22 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 23 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |
| 24 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 25 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 26 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 27 | Students often hesitate to let a rhythmic design run on for a long period , fearing monotony ; they therefore begin something different every few bars , sometimes in the belief that changing words need a constantly changing accompaniment . |
| 28 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 29 | He walked swiftly to the reception counter midway down a long hall leading to Dover Street . |
| 30 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |