Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] a 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 ‘ Sorry to get you here so early , ’ he said , ‘ but Angela 's death means we have to reorganize the entire workload , and I wanted a longer meeting today .
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 Her hair was short and dark , and she had a long face with a mobile mouth and crooked teeth .
8 And she took a long time to answer it .
9 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 .
10 They went out quietly and she gave a long sigh of relief .
11 They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think .
12 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
13 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 .
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 Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North .
20 Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look .
21 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 .
22 His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying .
23 And it made a long garage .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 .
27 ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’
28 It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago .
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