Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 4 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 5 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 6 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 7 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 8 | The captain joined in with a long raucous song , beating time on the tea tray . |
| 9 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 10 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 11 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 12 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 13 | After 1772 the " turnpike mania " settled down in a long steady progress to an eventual 22,000-mile peak in 1836 , accelerated only in the widespread speculative investment booms of the early 1790s , 1809 – 12 and the mid 1820s . |
| 14 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 15 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 16 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 19 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 20 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 21 | That went on for a long time . |
| 22 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 23 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 24 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 25 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 26 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 27 | This went on for a long time . |
| 28 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 29 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 30 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |