Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 2 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 3 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 4 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 5 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 6 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 7 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 8 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 9 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 10 | She looked over at the long table . |
| 11 | Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 13 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 14 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 15 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 16 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 17 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 18 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 19 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 20 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 21 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 22 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 23 | He clambered up behind the long bonnet , onto the padded bucket seat . |
| 24 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 25 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 26 | One difference between the pub and the rest of the street was that the brickwork had been painted cream which made it stand out from the long façade of varying shades of red or grey . |
| 27 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 28 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 29 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 30 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |