Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] a long [noun] " 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 | Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel . |
| 14 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 15 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 18 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 19 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 22 | And it made a long garage . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 26 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 27 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |
| 28 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 29 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 30 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |