Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time .
2 The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat .
3 It stayed there and grew for a long time , until it was a real baby .
4 When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway .
5 Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce .
6 The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave .
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