Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 2 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 3 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 4 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 5 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 6 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 7 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 8 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 9 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 10 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 11 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 12 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 13 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 14 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 15 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 16 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 17 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 18 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 19 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 20 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 21 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 22 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |