Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umberto , Alejandro 's laziest groom , was holding tightly on to her , while Raimundo , who was wearing a leather apron to protect his Gaucho pants , his little eyes glinting with pleasure and cruelty , was attaching a long lead rope to her headcollar . |
| 2 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 3 | While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative . |
| 4 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 5 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 6 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 7 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 8 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 9 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 10 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 11 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 12 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 13 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped . |
| 15 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 16 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 17 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 18 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 19 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 20 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 21 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 22 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 23 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 24 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 25 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 26 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 27 | Woolley was making a long telephone call . |
| 28 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 29 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 30 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |