Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 2 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 3 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 4 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 15 | Despite these adaptations , when the surrounding soil dries out during the long dry season , the toads may still lose considerable amounts of body water . |
| 16 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 17 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 18 | With a path to walk on through the long ‘ now ’ of summer . |
| 19 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 26 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 28 | At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior . |