Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 2 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 3 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 4 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 5 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 6 | Her hair was short and dark , and she had a long face with a mobile mouth and crooked teeth . |
| 7 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 8 | Paula 's bag and shoes were patent black leather , her gloves white , and she carried a long walking umbrella neatly furled in its fur-trimmed case . |
| 9 | They went out quietly and she gave a long sigh of relief . |
| 10 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 11 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 12 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 13 | And we began the long process of actually sort of causing it to be reborn . |
| 14 | Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel . |
| 15 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 16 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 17 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 18 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 19 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 20 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 21 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 24 | And it made a long garage . |
| 25 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 26 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 27 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 28 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 29 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 30 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |