Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 4 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 5 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 6 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 9 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 11 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 12 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 13 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 14 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 15 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 16 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 17 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 18 | She seemed , to Tammuz , quite agitated , pacing up and down behind her desk , swishing around in a long , belted gown . |
| 19 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 20 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 21 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 23 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 24 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 25 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 26 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 27 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 28 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 29 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 30 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |