Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 2 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 3 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 4 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 5 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 6 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |