Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [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 | ‘ No doubt you speak out of long experience , ’ said the abbot . |
| 3 | It holds 4 fl ozs , and enables you to drink conveniently on long runs . |
| 4 | ‘ So you go home to Long Island once a month , ’ said Harvey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | erm We have now at long last got his work permit , and he appears in this country next Thursday . |
| 7 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 8 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 9 | He walked rapidly with long swinging strides , was seldom ill , and had a probing curiosity . |
| 10 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 11 | Chapter 5 constitutes a rather tedious juxtaposition of " the most popular things in popular fiction " , as it consists mainly of long lists of those ingredients that have the highest frequency in popfiction . |
| 12 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 13 | It works best on long , straight hair but if it 's very thick it 'll probably take your hairdresser an afternoon to do the winding . |