Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 2 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 3 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
| 5 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 6 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 7 | No I 'm not , erm if I , if I take her for a long run . |
| 8 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 9 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 10 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 11 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 12 | ‘ You said that if you drop a clock into a black hole , and you watch it from a long way off , the hands appear to go round slower the closer it gets to the hole . |
| 13 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 14 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 15 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 16 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
| 17 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 19 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 20 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 21 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 22 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 23 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 24 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 25 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 26 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |