Example sentences of "[prep] a long letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1812 , Andrew Berkeley Drummond , newly appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse by the ailing George III , wrote to a cousin joining the bank of a long letter of banking advice . |
| 2 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 3 | After years of immersing myself in a new culture , I went to my local GP with a long letter explaining my wish to see a psychiatrist . |
| 4 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 5 | B H Payne , Headmaster of the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea and one of the founder-members , replied with a long letter in the next issue . |
| 6 | In a long letter to Alston in 1737 Miller discussed classification of plants according to Tournefort , ‘ no person was ever more exact in all the Synonimes , . |
| 7 | In a long letter , he then explained that his past affection for someone else ( no doubt Emily Hale ) rendered any new relationship impossible for him . |
| 8 | Nkrumah reassured Macmillan in a long letter ( 26 September 1961 ) . |
| 9 | ( In a long letter to Hester Thrale on 30 September , written from Ostig on Skye , he remarked with a different emphasis : ‘ Barley broath [ sic ] is a constant dish , and is made well in every house . |