Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 2 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 3 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 4 | We hoped that the US medical team whom we supposed would attend him at Wiesbaden , as we 'd heard had happened with other American hostages , would recognize that he needed a long rest . |
| 5 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 6 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 7 | Sliding her hands round to his flat stomach , she lightly ran her fingers through the hair arrowing down from his navel and he gave a long shudder . |
| 8 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 9 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 10 | You hear the crowd roar and a new name comes up on the leaderboard and you wonder whether he holed a long putt or chipped in . |
| 11 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 12 | Five minutes later , United goalkeeper , Ken Vasey was just fought when he missed a long cross from the left , and Bull was there heading into the empty net . |
| 13 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 14 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |