Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 2 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 3 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 4 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 5 | ‘ Congratulations , both of you , ’ Belinda said sincerely , then Andrew proposed a rambling , outrageous toast and drank a long gulp of champagne with pretended sophistication . |
| 6 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 7 | He was on his hands and knees and , although his leg hurt him , he moved quickly across the deck and took a long knife from among some ropes . |
| 8 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 9 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 10 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 11 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 12 | But he accepted the proffered wine and took a long draught , letting a thoughtful silence fall . |
| 13 | I went back to my room and took a long bath . |
| 14 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 15 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 16 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 18 | The other picked up his drink and took a long swallow , watching her over the rim of the tankard . |
| 19 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 20 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 21 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 22 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 23 | She cleaned off her smudged make-up , filled the bath and had a long soak . |
| 24 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
| 25 | Madame lit another cigarette and blew a long curl of blue smoke upwards from the side of her mouth . |
| 26 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 27 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 28 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 29 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 30 | A tightly compacted surface of graded stones kept water at bay and lasted a long time . |