Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
2 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
3 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
4 | When his mouth engulfed her sex she held in a long breath . |
5 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
6 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |