Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 2 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 3 | The Company Commander arrived at the objective a long way last and considerably out of breath . |
| 4 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 5 | I usually do this as little as possible so that the children stay in the game a long time . |
| 6 | One evening Mrs Hollidaye brought to the bedroom a long wooden box . |
| 7 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 8 | She waited on the landing a long time , hating the awful quietness and longing for them to start shouting again so that she would know everything was all right . |
| 9 | ‘ We suggested to the ministry a long time ago that they should find a flock with salmonella and test the eggs for salmonella . |