Example sentences of "he [vb past] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 2 | He drew long and hard on it , before exhaling slowly , watching the faint blue tobacco smoke coiling lazily up towards the damp-stained ceiling . |
| 3 | He toiled long hours , and devoted himself to Mother 's needs . |
| 4 | After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 . |
| 5 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 6 | Despite all this external activity he spent long periods of time in his diocese , active in every facet of ecclesiastical administration , as is revealed by his register , the first to survive for the diocese of Winchester . |
| 7 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 8 | He resented the inadequacy of the library , in which he worked long hours during such time as he was there . |
| 9 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 10 | He swore long and soft beneath his breath . |
| 11 | He took long holidays , habitually spending a winter month in Switzerland and a summer month or more in France or Italy . |
| 12 | He took long strides and he walked fast but he walked easily too and without great exertion . |
| 13 | Petrey says that he thought long and hard about how to deal with him . |
| 14 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 15 | He wore long underwear and elastic suspenders held his socks . |
| 16 | He looked long and hard at the younger executive as if trying to sum him up . |
| 17 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 18 | This he grew long and combed up , due north . |
| 19 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 20 | It was n't the hard work he minded , he liked work , he liked long hours , he did n't want to slack off : it was the anxiety he could n't stand . |
| 21 | Petrie 's recollection of Charles Manning is less rosy than Grace 's : ‘ He had long white hair , was billed as the Svengali of Music , and pranced around , stooping and conducting with hair and fingers dangling as he gesticulated comically and did a little dance on the podium ’ . |
| 22 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 23 | He had long hair , a square collar of white lace at the neck , and two white bands . |
| 24 | A Braemar vet , Ian Watt , said that he had long experience of co-operating with farmers and commented : ‘ Many years ago , I was involved with the MacRobert Trust on a consultancy basis . |
| 25 | He had long whiskers which he was very proud of . |
| 26 | to bite into his art , he wrote long letters |
| 27 | He ran long fingers through his straight dark hair while exclaiming impatiently , ‘ It 's a pity you could n't have thought to ask about days off . |
| 28 | He ran long fingers through his dark hair in a gesture of extreme exasperation . |