Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 2 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 3 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |
| 4 | Harry nodded and allowed himself to be led up into Long Acre . |
| 5 | People were going round with long faces looking glum right until Christmas Eve . |
| 6 | Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines . |
| 7 | This itself is built up from long chains of sugar and phosphate molecules to which are attached nitrogen-containing molecules called the nucleotide bases . |
| 8 | It exploits the fact that certain kinds of molecule are capable of ‘ polymerizing ’ , that is joining up in long chains of indefinite length . |
| 9 | Vincent Hickey , 38 , was moved out of Long Lartin top security jail last weekend after he was found bleeding from razor slash injuries , but is now refusing food at Birmingham 's Winson Green jail . |
| 10 | Their skin was stretched out between long spines , which seems to have acted as a cooling radiator . |