Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 2 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 3 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 4 | ‘ No doubt you speak out of long experience , ’ said the abbot . |
| 5 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
| 6 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 7 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 8 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 9 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |