Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 2 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 3 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 8 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |
| 9 | And you have a long walk . ’ |
| 10 | Her hair was short and dark , and she had a long face with a mobile mouth and crooked teeth . |
| 11 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They went out quietly and she gave a long sigh of relief . |
| 14 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon . |
| 18 | ‘ You ladies take far too long over your drinks , and we have a long drive ahead of us . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 20 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 21 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 22 | Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel . |
| 23 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 24 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 25 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 28 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 29 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 30 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |