Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 5 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 6 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 7 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 8 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 9 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 10 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 13 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 14 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 15 | Louis , walking out to the long black car , was a sack of tears . |
| 16 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 17 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 20 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
| 21 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 22 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 23 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 24 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 25 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 26 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 27 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 28 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 29 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 30 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |