Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 4 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 5 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 6 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 7 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 8 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 9 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 13 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 14 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 15 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 16 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 17 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 18 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |