Example sentences of "and [vb past] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 2 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 3 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 4 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 5 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 6 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 7 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 8 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 9 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 10 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 11 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 12 | Madame lit another cigarette and blew a long curl of blue smoke upwards from the side of her mouth . |
| 13 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 14 | He was on his hands and knees and , although his leg hurt him , he moved quickly across the deck and took a long knife from among some ropes . |
| 15 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 16 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 17 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 18 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
| 19 | Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots . |
| 20 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 21 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 22 | Robin Prentice , who died during the winter , became the Scottish Cricket Union 's Administrator in 1982 , retiring in 1990 and had a long association with the game in Scotland and as a wicket-keeper batsman with Uddingston in the Western Union . |
| 23 | He also developed an interest in whales , worked at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples and the Plymouth Laboratory , and had a long association with the Marine Biological Association . |
| 24 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 25 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 26 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 27 | Green was a warm supporter of the monarchy , and wrote a long encomium of George III after hearing of his death in 1820 . |
| 28 | He let her go and ran a long finger across her cheek . |
| 29 | ‘ Congratulations , both of you , ’ Belinda said sincerely , then Andrew proposed a rambling , outrageous toast and drank a long gulp of champagne with pretended sophistication . |
| 30 | Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion . |