Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a 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 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 14 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
| 15 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 16 | After a frugal meal , she wrapped herself in a long white cashmere cardigan that Ace had insisted on buying her , and sat out on the balcony that overlooked the distant Atlantic ocean , and , more immediately , the beautiful gardens of the hotel . |
| 17 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 18 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 19 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 20 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 23 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 24 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 25 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 26 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
| 29 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |